Oracle ups the ante in MySQL competition while others maneuver for market share
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A commonly understood principle in the tech world is that over time, every industry ultimately gets disrupted. It’s MySQL’s turn.
The popular database technology was due for a shakeup after nearly 26 years. That disruption has recently been fueled by Oracle Corp., which released MySQL HeatWave in December. Other major cloud players and a growing ecosystem of smaller firms are seeking to raise MySQL’s profile in the future role of database tech for enterprise information technology.
In the past, MySQL was great for transactions, but data usually had to be moved via the so-called extract/transfer/load or ETL process for analytics. Transfers take time, and time is money. If the database got too big, performance would deteriorate.