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 ...

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 ...

The database has always revolved around rock-solid reliability. Data goes in and then comes out in exactly the same way. Occasionally, the bits will be cleaned up and normalized so all of the dates ...

The Chinese generative artificial intelligence platform DeepSeek has had a meteoric rise this week, stoking rivalries and generating market pressure for United States–based AI companies, which in turn ...

Many organizations have a false sense of confidence when it comes to databases and their vulnerability, believing that if their database is hit by a ransomware attack, it will automatically cease ...

Operational databases continue to expand, with database sizes growing in most organizations. There are several reasons for this growth. The primary reason, of course, is that more and more data is ...

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 ...

The surge in data company acquisitions continued Monday with Snowflake’s purchase of Crunchy Data. Cloud data platform Snowflake announced its intent to acquire Crunchy Data, a Postgres database ...

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 ...

Part 4 of CRN’s Big Data 100 includes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the big data database system space. The total volume of data created or replicated globally reached 64.2 ...