Oracle today announced the availability of the Oracle MySQL Database Service with integrated MySQL Analytics Engine, optimized for and exclusively available in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). OCI customers can now run sophisticated analytics directly against their operational MySQL databases, eliminating the need for complex and expensive data integration with a separate analytics database MySQL Analytics Engine is an in-memory analytics accelerator that automatically scales out to thousands of OCI cores and at least 2X faster and up to 66% less expensive than Amazon Redshift Unified operational and analytics MySQL service makes OCI the best place to build and run MySQL applications