You have a MySQL instance? Great. You want to take it to a cloud? Nothing new. You want to do it fast, minimizing downtime / service outage? “I wish” I hear you say. Pull up a chair. Let’s have a chinwag. Given the objective above, i.e. “I have a database server on premise and I want […]

Securing a database includes securing sensitive items such as keys, passphrases, and more. Its important to protect from misuse by using cryptography and access controls to limit usage by only the components that use them or admins that require them.  MySQL Enterprise Keyring security component provides integrated Key Management with secure vaults.  Starting with MySQL Enterprise Edition 8.0.22, […]

  Introduction MySQL is the most popular open-source database and many organizations choose MySQL to store their valuable enterprise data. MySQL is optimized for OLTP, but it is not designed for analytic processing. As a result, organizations which need to efficiently run analytics on data stored in MySQL database move their data to another database […]

This blog includes: Keynote video highlights, link to full keynote, product demo, testimonial, upcoming MySQL Database Service and Analytics Engine webinars, and more. Today the MySQL team introduces the MySQL Database Service with the MySQL Analytics Engine. 1. Watch the keynote highlights:   2. See the MySQL Database Service in action in a short product demo.    3. […]

In the previous blog we provided insights on how the MySQL database has been enhanced to integrate with a native high performance analytics engine – HeatWave: https://blogs.oracle.com/mysql/breakthrough-enhancements-in-mysql-database-service-with-analytics-engine HeatWave is a new, massively parallel in-memory query engine developed by Oracle Labs designed for accelerating analytic workloads. HeatWave provides 100x-1000x acceleration over MySQL and MySQL compatible databases […]

  Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Integration with MySQL Database Service and Heatwave Virtually all data types from any data source can be integrated into the MySQL Database Service and HeatWave. When you need to collect data from diverse sources in a timely manner, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Data Integration, a cloud native, serverless ETL (extract, load, transform) […]

Get better business insight faster by combining the data visualization and AI capabilities of Oracle Analytics Cloud with the fastest MySQL cloud service. This on-demand webinar offers a quick introduction to the MySQL Database Service and to the Oracle Analytics Cloud Service.   Watch the webinar (including demo): Speakers: Mandy Pang, Oracle Labs, Principal Product Manager […]

From RDS to MDS   When an application reaches the maximum capabilities offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) RDS, it is often recommended to migrate to the AWS Aurora service.   However, Aurora is based on an older version of MySQL.  Aurora still does not support MySQL 8.0, which was released in April 2018.  Therefore, it […]

HeatWave is designed to enable customers to run analytics on data which is stored in MySQL databases without the need for ETL. This service is built on an innovative, in-memory analytics engine which is architected for scalability and performance and is optimized for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Gen 2 hardware. This results in a very […]

MySQL Database Service is now easier to use and has flexible deployment options, including High Availability. While creating a new DB System using the web console, users can choose between Standalone, Highly Availability, and HeatWave deployments. The service will pre-populate the necessary fields with the recommended settings. You only need to provide the MySQL user […]