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 ...

Stonebraker essentially abandoned Postgres in the mid-1990s. But instead of fading into obscurity, the codebase was salvaged ...

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 ...

A tale of dueling open source projects for object-relational mapping may be brewing within Eclipse, with similar proposals floated by Versant and Oracle. Versant on Tuesday will announce that it has ...

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 ...

Yugabyte, provider of an open source SQL database based on a document database architecture, today announced it has garnered an additional $48 million funding. The funding will be employed to advance ...

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 ...

It’s hard to compete with easy. PostgreSQL has a lot of great qualities, but being easy to use seals the deal for companies and consultants. Even as NoSQL databases keep booming, the relational party ...