MariaDB CEO: People who want things free also want to have very nice vacations Former MySQL fork launches attack on hyperscaler database services with support for multiple front ends Databases16 May 2023 | 44
If you don't brush and floss, you're gonna get an abscess – same with MySQL updates Database hygiene matters, says Percona expert Databases11 May 2023 | 4
EDB offers 'risk-free' migration to lure Oracle users to the PostgreSQL side Long-suffering Big Red customers 'may finally be ready,' says analyst Databases02 May 2023 | 8
Trino and dbt open source data tools snuggle closer with integrated SaaS Managed offerings now work in tandem to crunch data where it resides Databases28 Apr 2023 |
It's a matter of when, not if, customers move to the cloud, SAP tells investors That's news to some as analysts claim on-prem will be here for the foreseeable Databases21 Apr 2023 | 12
MariaDB cuts jobs, repeats 'going concern' warning to stock market New CFO sees interesting in-tray at 20 percent year-on-year growth database company Databases18 Apr 2023 | 6
FerretDB 1.0 offers fresh approach to open source document databases How to PostgreSQL MongoDB out of the equation Databases14 Apr 2023 | 7
Couchbase's chief techie on squaring the schema-less circle Interview Ravi Mayuram on work to make life easier for devs while sprinkling a bit of SQL on top Spotlight on Databases31 Mar 2023 | 2
Cloud Security Alliance VP: Database security boils down to these three things Interview Here's how not to end up in their next report as a cautionary tale Spotlight on Databases30 Mar 2023 | 1
Exasol: Taking a bet on the affordability of in-memory analytics Interview German startup reconned on hardware economics favouring a specialist database Spotlight on Databases29 Mar 2023 | 6
AWS security exec: You don't want to win this database popularity contest Interview Data guarding requires better 'education, better technology, and better automation' Spotlight on Databases28 Mar 2023 | 7
When it comes to database security it's down to people, not tech fixes, to save the day Interview Get your staff and processes lined up and ready to go Spotlight on Databases27 Mar 2023 | 5
Watch for schema design in graph database rollout, business user warns Hardware configuration also important to get query times down, says global research publisher Spotlight on Databases27 Mar 2023 | 3
Aerospike targets Java Spring devs with support for the popular framework Database shortcuts built in popular environment in hopes of scoring devs who want an easy life Spotlight on Databases22 Mar 2023 |
Ex-BigQuery exec and Motherduck CEO: For some users, the answer is to think small Interview Former Google veteran talks to El Reg about trends in big data of the past decade Spotlight on Databases21 Mar 2023 |
Pair accused of breaking into US law enforcement database, posing as cops Teen arrested yesterday while another man suspected of being a ViLE crime group member still 'at large' Spotlight on Databases15 Mar 2023 | 4
The nodes have it in the Great DB debate: Reg readers pick graph Register Debate Industry upstart preferred... for now Spotlight on Databases10 Mar 2023 | 28
Tabular launches with the promise of a 'headless' data warehouse Developers of Apache Iceberg announce sign-up for their first product Spotlight on Databases08 Mar 2023 |
Great Graph Database Debate: Abandoning the relational model is 'reinventing the wheel' Register Debate Let's talk about what well-architected looks like Spotlight on Databases08 Mar 2023 | 47
AWS dragged over lengthy downtime to migrate PostgreSQL DBaaS Aurora needs a break to get users off 11.x, says cloud giant Spotlight on Databases14 Feb 2023 |
How this database legal war could be decided by the name given to this license Neo4j v PureThink rumbles on Devops12 Feb 2023 | 4
Best time to prepare to leave an Oracle ULA? The day after it starts, say licensing gurus Big Red 'will always start with a large number and negotiate down' Databases01 Feb 2023 | 10
Sorry seems to be tech execs' favorite word as DB player Aiven lays off 1 in 5 Finnish open source biz joins elite in correcting pandemic hiring frenzy Databases23 Jan 2023 | 3
Quickest way to save with Oracle? Get off Unlimited Licensing Agreements, says pundit They're not the meal deal they might seem to be, claims audit expert Databases16 Jan 2023 | 21
Microsoft fixes Windows database connections it broke in November January Patch Tuesday update resolves issue caused by Patch Tuesday update late in '22 Patches11 Jan 2023 | 3
Apache Iceberg promises to change the economics of cloud-based data analytics Feature Adopted by Snowflake, Google and Cloudera, we look at why the Netflix-developed table format is important Databases03 Jan 2023 | 6
Cassandra 4.1 promises dev guardrails and pluggable storage Apache project focused on stability following previous major upgrade Databases09 Dec 2022 | 2
Microsoft: Whoops, Patch Tuesday might screw your database connections SQL sequel needed for ODBC apps Software08 Dec 2022 | 71
SQL Server license prices rise ten percent as version 2022 debuts Udpated Azure SQL pay-as-you-go rate is the only rate that won't change, and it was already expensive Databases23 Nov 2022 | 26
MotherDuck scores $47.5m to prove scale-up databases are not quackers Interview Former BigQuery tech lead tells Reg about data-warehouse-on-your-laptop DuckDB Databases17 Nov 2022 | 6
Databases still pushing more hardware purchasing than any other app $40 billion heading out the door for data management servers and storage in 2022 alone Systems08 Nov 2022 |
Redis swallows RESP.app biz that made its database easier on developers Acquisition of Ukrainian startup to help broaden appeal beyond popular cache Databases03 Nov 2022 |
Couchbase claims fourfold performance boost for DBaaS using a tenth of the memory Improvements to storage engine follow DataStax update to API gateway Databases01 Nov 2022 |
Db2 goes 'cloud-first' as IBM struggles to lift database dinosaur One foot firmly in the mainframe for pre-loved system dating back to the 1970s Databases27 Oct 2022 | 6
SAP struggles to exit Russia after sale of support unit stalled Datacenters, cloud services shut down but keep maintaining DBs for the nation's businesses Databases25 Oct 2022 | 5
Oracle opens up internal dev tools so customers can build their own apps Oracle CloudWorld Big Red rolls out DB document handling, white-label cloud package – but customers warned to check out terms of service first PaaS + IaaS19 Oct 2022 | 7
US Veterans Affairs hits brakes on $10b Oracle Cerner health record system Nothing like medical orders routed into /dev/null and other problems to hold up a roll out Databases14 Oct 2022 | 10
Microsoft attempts to eat Oracle's database lunch with Azure migration service Ignite Redmond hopes move will lure more to its PostgreSQL managed service Databases12 Oct 2022 | 5
Structured data, unstructured data: It shouldn't matter, says Google GCN Apache Spark comes to BigQuery while BigLake gets Iceberg support Databases11 Oct 2022 | 2
Loads of PostgreSQL systems are sitting on the internet without SSL encryption They probably shouldn't be connected in the first place, says database expert Research07 Oct 2022 | 20
Teradata CTO Stephen Brobst drowns data lakehouse concept Interview Colorful data techie seeks to fend off rivals Databases03 Oct 2022 | 6
Cockroach Labs CTO: Google became too comfortable, I wasn't being challenged Interview Peter Mattis on starting a multibillion-dollar company as serverless database hits GA Databases29 Sep 2022 | 4
Google previews streaming connector for BigQuery All your data on one platform, opines the Chocolate Factory Databases16 Sep 2022 | 2
Want to know the future of FOSS? You can look it up in a database Opinion If you make it here, you can make it anywhere Databases12 Sep 2022 | 10
DuckDB, database wrangler used by Google, Facebook, and Airbnb, hits 0.5.0 System look well suited to fill gaps in traditional OLAP market Databases09 Sep 2022 | 11
Microsoft offers SQL Server 2022 release candidate to Linux world Redmond loves open source so much, it keeps most of its stuff closed Databases08 Sep 2022 | 17
Open source databases: What are they and why do they matter? Feature We trawled through the licensing terms and spoke to the vendors so you don't have to Databases05 Sep 2022 | 47
Ant Group’s in-house DB set for global release, including Raspberry Pi edition OceanBase 4.0 is derived from tech behind Alipay and is MySQL compatible Databases16 Aug 2022 | 7
Cyber-mercenaries for hire represent shifting criminal business model Emerging threat group offers a broad range of attack services Security25 Jul 2022 | 9
Couldn't connect to West Europe SQL Databases last week? Blame operator error Clouds form over PICNIC (Problem In Chair Not In Computer) PaaS + IaaS25 Jul 2022 | 5
Oracle, Microsoft agree to shared custody of your workloads in the cloud Larry gets your database, while Satya will take your apps PaaS + IaaS20 Jul 2022 | 15
Digital burglary at recruitment agency Morgan Hunt confirmed Third-party software developer blamed for 'improperly storing credentials to our database' Security15 Jul 2022 | 19
Oracle 12.1 users warned as mainstream support ends in July 12.1 friends without benefits as database pros question LTR with Oracle 12.2 Databases08 Jul 2022 | 3
Oracle, IBM losing ground to local databases in China, says IDC One market down on China's march toward tech self-sufficiency, a bajillion more to go. Databases06 Jul 2022 | 5
UK signs deal to share police biometric database with US border guards Officials could access data to make immigration decisions, European Parliament report suggests Networks04 Jul 2022 | 156
DataStax launches streaming data platform with backward support for JMS Or move to Apache Pulsar for efficiency gains, says NoSQL vendor Databases29 Jun 2022 |
YugabyteDB tempts devs with read-committed isolation levels It's easier than retraining PostgreSQL devs, says distributed relational database startup Databases28 Jun 2022 | 2
Rows, columns, and the search for a database that can do everything Analysis Snowflake last week promised analytics and transactions in the same system. For some it was déjà vu all over again Databases22 Jun 2022 | 6
Cassandra vendor DataStax secures $115m investment for $1.6b valuation Tech stock crash fails to deter Goldman Sachs as it leads funding round in the real-time data specialist Databases15 Jun 2022 | 1
Database from the 1980s needs time travel says author It's back to the future for PostgreSQL as Michael Stonebraker lists priorities for the popular open-source system he helped create Databases14 Jun 2022 | 5
MongoDB wants to grab work from other databases Analysis Goal is to bring analytics to its transactional workloads but there are places where this might fall short Databases13 Jun 2022 | 4
Oracle plans US database for electronic health records Based in the Big Red cloud, the system will suck up records from hospitals and physicians, says CTO Larry Ellison Databases10 Jun 2022 | 18