After nine months of testing, Amazon Web Services is now offering its Aurora database as a full commercial service, positioning it as a high-performance alternative to the widely used open source ...

Amazon’s revved-up database service offers five times the throughput of MySQL and a formidable alternative to Oracle and SQL Server The 20-year-old MySQL database is the world’s most widely used open ...

With Wednesday’s preview release of a new database service called Aurora, Amazon Web Services claims to have supercharged the open source MySQL with the high performance, reliability, and scalability ...

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Many web applications have been built on an open source stack that included MySQL. Despite its limitations, MySQL managed to become the world’s most widely used open source RDBMS. What limitations, ...

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The Net retailer's cloud-computing effort is getting more sophisticated with the arrival of a database service with which more people will be familiar. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Two Harvard dropouts are launching AI smart glasses that record every conversation. The Halo X glasses promise productivity benefits but raise major compliance and privacy challenges. Meta, Google, ...

Amazon has launched its Relational Database Service in Europe, allowing businesses to set up on-demand MySQL 5.1 database instances on servers based in the region. The European Union launch, announced ...

After nine months of testing, Amazon Web Services is now offering its Aurora database as a full commercial service, positioning it as a high-performance alternative to the widely used open source ...