ALBA Synchrotron collaborates with SOLEIL and ELETTRA institutes in the improvement of the Archiving System for Tango. An open source Database engine (MySQL) has been chosen and the viability and limitations of a MySQL-based Archiving System have been evaluated in a test platform. Using Java-based data collectors both centralized and distributed architectures have been tested. It allowed to demonstrate the maturity of the system, being achieved the most critical requirements.