MySQL AB wants to launch a global project to build a massive, distributed repository containing all of the world’s data now stored in structured databases, the company’s chief executive ...

It’s looking to build a data storage engine that will work with its open-source database as part of an effort to wean itself from reliance on Oracle Corp.

With its January 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle gained the MySQL open source database management software (DBMS) platform for enterprise IT environments. MySQL is designed to let users ...

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