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The company on Friday posted a "freebie" version of its 10g product to the Oracle Technical Network (OTN). Oracle Database 10g Express Edition, or XE, targets hobbyists, new database developers and ...

Oracle Corp. plans to release a free version of its database by the end of the year in a move to compete more effectively at the low end of the market. Oracle released a beta version of the product, ...

In a Facebook engineering blog, Steaphan Greene, a Facebook software engineer, announced the creation of a new MySQL branch: WebScaleSQL. This is a version of Oracle's MySQL for gigantic database ...

MySQL is a common database amongst many organizations. As such, when building an automation script that needs to query data from somewhere, you might run into the need to query a MySQL database. By ...

Databases are by no means an easy product category to understand. Many of the big players now offer free or "light" versions of their databases, but comparing them all is no easy task -- as we found ...