But will it set a real standard for MongoDB alternatives? Analysis When Microsoft rolled out an open source extension stack for PostgreSQL to handle document-style data, it wasn't just taking aim at ...

IT execs responding to two recent surveys cited "strong security" as one of the top reasons they're adopting open-source cloud databases—the lack of which was once considered an impediment to adoption ...

These open source databases implemented subsets of the features in the big relational databases, but they were rarely unique feature sets. However, when the biggest revolution in database technology ...

MariaDB plc, a company that commercializes the open-source relational database of the same name, has received takeover interest from K1 Investment Management. The software maker disclosed the ...

Solving a difficult problem is what led the founders of Aiven Ltd. to create a new business. The company’s leaders previously built mission-critical data infrastructure for Nokia Corp. and F-Secure ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...

Cutting corners: MySQL is a popular open-source relational database management system developed by Swedish company MySQL AB in the mid 90s. Sun Microsystems acquired the firm in 2008, which Oracle ...

Search engine and cloud computing juggernaut Google is hosting its Google Cloud Next ’21 conference this week, and one of the more interesting things that the company unveiled is several layers of ...

A tale of dueling open-source projects for object-relational mapping may be brewing within Eclipse, with similar proposals floated by Versant Corp. and Oracle Corp. Versant plans to announce on ...

Microsoft packed SQL Server 2016 with new advanced features that are supposed to help it compete with a host of other database software. But some of the advanced capabilities in the relational ...