MySQL 5.7 is scheduled to be available for download on October 26. Earlier this year, Amazon unveiled a competitor to MySQL known as Aurora.

Percona continues to nip at Oracle's heels, releasing a free version of the open-source MySQL 5.6 database with advanced features similar to ones in Oracle's paid enterprise edition.

This whitepaper discusses upgrading to MySQL 5.7 - its enhancements, security plugins and the benefits of upgrading. Also, we explain the various ways to upgrade, the default conflict changes in ...