Open source databases have steadily gained ground on proprietary systems, driven by the rise of Linux, cloud computing and NoSQL technologies. Open source databases and source-available alternatives ...

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The developer behind the popular open-source PostgreSQL database software, the PostgreSQL Global Development Group, today announced the release of PostgreSQL 16 that includes enhancements to security, ...

The database giant said Sleepycat’s open-source Berkeley DB database will complement Oracle’s existing line of closed-source databases for embedding within applications. The products differ from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Data analytics platform Databricks said on Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire Neon, a startup building an open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres, for about $1 billion. Databricks said ...

Start-up company EnterpriseDB Corp. announced the general availability of its open-source database software Tuesday, hoping to make its mark in what has quickly become a competitive field of ...

More respondents indicate their organizations are doing well with a host of database operations metrics than they are with meeting developer needs: More than 70 percent of respondents say they are ...

Marten Mickos may no longer run MySQL, but his ghost still haunts the database market. Years ago, Mickos declared, “The relational database market is a $9 billion a year market. I want to shrink it to ...

Developers love open source. In truth, many people outside of the professional software engineering cognoscenti are very fond of open source too, often optionally using a degree of open applications ...