Hibernate 5 has updated dialects for various databases, and MySQL 8 has a special one of its own. Here's an example hibernate.cfg.xml for MySQL 8 for Hibernate 5 apps or newer.

Hibernate MySQL persistence XML file As MySQL installations continue to migrate and evolve to newer versions, the online JPA and Hibernate 5 tutorials haven’t kept up with quite as much vigor. As a ...

Engineering teams from Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Twitter have begun work on WebScaleSQL, an open source project designed to address the challenges of running MySQL at Web scale.

On the other hand, the second kind of open-source community may have a vendor that controls the project and the project could potentially be “purchased.” MySQL is one such example.

Both Fedora and openSUSE will be replacing Oracle's MySQL with its open-source fork--MariaDB.

With Oracle acquiring Sun Microsystems, it also acquires MySQL, the poster child for open-source applications. (Not to mention Solaris, which Sun says is a larger Linux distribution than Red Hat.

Michael Widenius, the creator of the MySQL server, one of the most widely used and popular open software software, is now asking for everyone's help to keep it that way.With the imminent takeover ...