Since Oracle launched its MySQL HeatWave service in December 2020, it has continuously driven differentiation in the database-as-a-service market. While competing against some of the biggest names ...

With its recent investment in advances for MySQL and HeatWave, Oracle is charting its own course in the database market.

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Oracle also automated much of the training process, said Nipun Agarwal, senior vice president for MySQL database and HeatWave at Oracle.

MySQL was first released in 1995, while the community-developed fork, MariaDB, emerged in 2009 as a reaction to Oracle's acquisition of the open-source technology.

Linux distributors have been moving from Oracle's MySQL to its popular fork, MariaDB - and now Google is also moving to MariaDB.

In addition to updating MySQL HeatWave’s AutoML and Autopilot, Oracle will now offer a small shape for the service, targeting customers with smaller volumes of data.