The open source MySQL spin-off has steadily added features all its own. Here are five good reasons to switch to MariaDB. MariaDB may have started as a MySQL fork, following Oracle’s acquisition of ...

There are many ways to describe a database: the role it plays in a distributed architecture, the various internal components that make it work, and the various levels that define specific roles and ...

Margaret Rouse is an award-winning technical writer and teacher known for her ability to explain complex technical subjects simply to a non-technical, business audience. Over… DBMSs are important ...

If you’re looking for a simple-to-use web-based GUI for administering your relational MySQL databases and then some, Adminer may be what you’re looking for. If you’re creating a web application using ...

Our previous blog article, “The Part of PostgreSQL We Hate the Most,” discussed the problems caused by everyone’s favorite street-strength DBMS multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) implementation.

innodb-java-reader is a java implementation to access MySQL InnoDB storage engine file directly. With the library or command-line tool, it provides read-only features like examining pages, looking up ...

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I recently published a tutorial describing the different available methods to store data locally in an Android app. However, due to article length constraints, I could not adequately cover creating ...