Microsoft Corp. today is introducing updates across its database portfolio as part of general availability announcements for Azure DocumentDB and SQL Server 2025.

Given recent maneuvers by proprietarydatabase vendors, it is apparent thatopen source is having an impact on the database software market. Two recent reports from major IT analysis firmsIDC andGartner ...

Earlier, we discussed SQL Databases. In this post, I will list some popular open-source, free database software. Before starting any service online, it is necessary to choose a database that can ...

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PostgreSQL is a big deal. The most common SQL open source database that you have never heard of, as ZDNet's own Tony Baer called it. Besides being the framework on which a number of commercial ...

Commercial release of Toad Edge™ 2.0 toolset streamlines database implementations, development and management across PostgreSQL and EDB Postgres™ platforms Reduces Postgres learning curve and ...

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 ...

Open-source relational database startup Yugabyte Inc. said today it has raised $48 million in new funding to accelerate the launch of its fully managed Yugabyte Cloud offering. The Series C round was ...

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 ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Open source software is probably the most ...

SAN FRANCISCO--VA Software and IBM will announce a software partnership Tuesday, a move that highlights the tricky entanglements of the opposing open-source and proprietary programming philosophies.

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