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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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Every RDS MySQL read replica is a regular database instance. It runs, it consumes compute and storage, and it bills at the same hourly rate as any other instance of the same class. The fact that it is ...