What becomes a mighty oak starts as a tiny acorn. Software application development follows this same ageless pattern. And that’s the idea behind Oracle offering a new “Always Free” version of Oracle’s ...

How effective are free and open source data bases? For answers, we reviewed 6:: Microsoft SQL Server Express, PostgreSQL, Oracle's MySQL, MariaDB, Apache Derby and Firebird SQL. Free or open source ...

Oracle’s change in strategy to release a developer-first version of its new database is linked to the company’s plans to defend its market dominance and look at innovative ways to acquire new ...

Part 2 of CRN’s Big Data 100 includes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the big data database system space. Left On Base The total amount of data created and replicated worldwide ...

Picture this: The year is 2030, and you’re living in a world where retailers can predict consumer behavior with uncanny accuracy, healthcare providers are diagnosing diseases before symptoms escalate ...

Key-value, document-oriented, column family, graph, relational… Today we seem to have as many kinds of databases as there are kinds of data. While this may make choosing a database harder, it makes ...