Dear Oracle, we need to talk about the future of MySQL
Faithful pen open letter proposing independent foundation with or without Big Red's participation
Databases17 Feb 2026 | 11
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Oracle vows 'new era' for MySQL as users sharpen their forks
Commit drought and governance gripes push Big Red to reset
Databases16 Feb 2026 | 29
AI agent hype cools as enterprises struggle to get into production
Only the biggest businesses are up to the challenge, says Redis CEO
Agentic AI28 Jan 2026 | 9
No membrane in sight as Osmos diffuses into Microsoft Fabric
AI data engineering startup acquisition brings ETL and Spark automation in-house
Databases06 Jan 2026 |
An early end to the holidays: 'Heartbleed of MongoDB' is now under active exploit
You didn't think you'd get to enjoy your time off without a major cybersecurity incident, did you?
Patches30 Dec 2025 | 20
Oracle raises AI spending estimate, spooks investors
But if you assume cloud IOUs will be fulfilled, business is booming
Databases11 Dec 2025 | 15
IBM straps AI to Db2 console in bid to modernize the old warhorse
Intelligence Center features aim to unify management across on-prem, cloud, and containerized estates
Databases08 Dec 2025 | 5
Snowflake jumps on agentic AI train with Anthropic tie-up
$200M deal brings Claude into data cloud, yet its touted ‘90%+’ accuracy needs human oversight
AI + ML04 Dec 2025 | 3
UK SAP users say they're baffled by Business Suite reboot licensing maze
Pricing complexity makes justifying migrations an uphill battle
Databases04 Dec 2025 | 8
MongoDB talks up its AI chops by talking down PostgreSQL
CEO touts win from 'super-high growth' customer that couldn't scale on rival system
Databases02 Dec 2025 | 13
Cloudflare broke itself – and a big chunk of the Internet – with a bad database query
Thought it was the victim of a ‘hyper-scale DDoS attack’ before finding the fix
Databases19 Nov 2025 | 83
Two-fifths of SAP Americas users yet to ditch legacy ERP
S/4HANA migration? Many still worried about business process change
Databases05 Nov 2025 | 7
Snowflake goes all out to woo PostgreSQL developers with lakehouse extensions
Buyers still struggling to differentiate data platforms in era of AI
Databases05 Nov 2025 |
Palantir CEO celebrates one cash culture to rule them all
If you want your First Amendment rights, make money the Palantir way
Software04 Nov 2025 | 29
‘ERP down for emergency maintenance’ was code for ‘You deleted what?’
Who, Me? One SQL slip-up is survivable. Not learning from the first mess meant change
Databases03 Nov 2025 | 78
The clock's ticking for MySQL 8.0 as end of life looms
Percona says more than half of installs remain on version set to lose support in 2026
Databases31 Oct 2025 | 11
SAP says some customers are dragging their feet on contract sign-offs
Share price dips as cloud sales outlook disappoints amid slow US public sector bookings
Databases23 Oct 2025 | 5
Carnegie Mellon team claims vector-based system can turbocharge PostgreSQL
Researchers say 'Proto-X' fine-tunes databases automatically, delivering multifold performance boosts
Databases22 Oct 2025 | 6
SAP users still wrestling with business case for S/4HANA
A decade later, ERP giant struggles to convince legacy customers to upgrade
Databases17 Oct 2025 | 23
KuzuDB says so long and thanks for all the commits, marooning community
Users left wondering whether to fork it or forget it as another FOSS project bites the dust
Software14 Oct 2025 | 25
Lance takes aim at Parquet in file format joust
Challenger seeks to unseat incumbent for machine learning workloads
Databases14 Oct 2025 |
IBM invites CockroachDB to infest its mainframes with PostgreSQL
Vendors promote bridge to modern architecture for legacy systems, but Db2 not going anywhere just yet
Off-Prem08 Oct 2025 | 4
AI devs close to scraping bottom of data barrel
Analysts at Goldman Sachs Global Institute say training is starting to hit its limits, enterprise info troves may be last hope
AI + ML03 Oct 2025 | 51
Lloyds Banking Group says 'digitization' will power more branch closures
Group promises sandboxing of AI money management tools with 1,000 branches remaining
Software02 Oct 2025 | 52
Fork yeah: Valkey 9 sharpens edge against Redis
Open source database adds multi-tenant clustering, safer shutdowns, and eyes life beyond caching
Databases29 Sep 2025 |
'Technical debt' in police database built to respond to child murders causing a 'failing service'
Project rated at 'Red' risk as it struggles to move off obsolete Oracle tech and cloud transition stalls
Databases22 Sep 2025 | 8
Social Security admin denies DB data leak, DOGEs questions about a copy
Carefully crafted response makes no mention of whether DOGE employees duplicated critical database
Public Sector17 Sep 2025 | 9
Whitehall lobs £40M at 'critical' phase of police DB reboot
Officials say there's no time to switch suppliers if they want the PNC off life support before March 2026
Public Sector17 Sep 2025 | 12
Neo4j's 'property sharding' promises to overcome scalability struggle
Graph database fave also punts for transactional workloads
Databases11 Sep 2025 | 4
Just because you can render a Doom-like in SQL doesn't mean you should
CedarDB pushed to the limit in improbable gaming experiment
Databases11 Sep 2025 | 11
No gains, just pains as 1.6M fitness phone call recordings exposed online
Exclusive HelloGym's data security clearly skipped leg day
Cyber-crime09 Sep 2025 | 7
Microsoft hits pause on Copilot ... in SQL Server Management Studio
Only a temporary reprieve until GitHub Copilot integration is up and running
AI + ML08 Sep 2025 | 6
PostgreSQL 18 eyes analytics boost and distributed future
Async I/O and UUID v7 highlights of the September release, though some SQL features are delayed
Databases04 Sep 2025 | 1
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA
Who, Me? At last, enough hours in the day to RTFM
Columnists01 Sep 2025 | 76
DOGE accused of duplicating critical Social Security database on unsecured cloud
Remember that cost-cutting group once led by Elon Musk? Federal employees are still dealing with it
Security26 Aug 2025 | 54
Minority Report: Now with more spreadsheets and guesswork
Precogs replaced by profiling and postcode data... and 'AI'. What could wrong? Lots, say privacy campaigners
Databases16 Aug 2025 | 71
Under-qualified sysadmin crashed Amazon.com for 3 hours with a typo
Who, Me? 'This, many considered, was bad'
Columnists21 Jul 2025 | 80
Not so SaaSy now: Oracle sugars BYOL deals as AWS database tie-in goes live
Big Red incentivizes perpetual licenses with 76% savings as it parks racks in hyperscaler datacenters
Cloud Infrastructure Month18 Jul 2025 | 2
Users of PostgreSQL in the cloud say the uptime just ain't up to it
One in five users hit by service failures in the last year, research finds
Databases11 Jul 2025 | 11
Alibaba Cloud reveals DB cluster manager it says can beat rival hyperscalers
‘Eigen+’ finds instances likely to cause out of memory errors and makes sure they can’t do damage
Cloud Infrastructure Month03 Jul 2025 | 1
Voltron Data throws its weight behind AMD for GPU-accelerated SQL
Exclusive In case you forgot AI isn't the only thing GPUs are good for
Databases18 Jun 2025 | 7
ScyllaDB paddles toward scale and profit with Raft-powered upgrade
Cassandra rival releases new DBaaS relying on consensus algorithm
Databases18 Jun 2025 | 4
Dems hyperventilate about Palantir's work with the IRS in letter to CEO Karp
They're taking the data from IRSengard, claim Dems; officials tell us that's not true
Public Sector17 Jun 2025 | 41
Industry reacts to DuckDB's radical rethink of Lakehouse architecture
Excitement over DuckLake, but momentum is with Iceberg as players at AWS, Snowflake weigh in
Databases05 Jun 2025 | 7
DuckDB flips lakehouse model with bring-your-own compute and metadata RDBMS
Open source in-process OLAP system launches rival to Iceberg and Delta Lake table format, and more
Databases28 May 2025 |
Microsoft stitches transactional databases to Fabric analytics system
SQL Server and Cosmos DB added to data lake platform as lure for building AI features into transactional systems
Databases23 May 2025 | 5
A year on, Valkey charts path to v9 after break from Redis
Interview Fork focuses on stability and inclusion as it preps for more ambitious changes
Databases15 May 2025 | 1
NASA jettisons Neo4j database for Memgraph citing costs
It's not rocket science, it's budgeting
Databases07 May 2025 | 7
Redis 'returns' to open source with AGPL license
New plan may remain too restrictive for some developers
Databases01 May 2025 | 38
Vector search is the new black for enterprise databases
Software slingers from Redis to Teradata are bolting on smarts to stay relevant in GenAI era
AI Software Development Week24 Apr 2025 | 4
Customer info allegedly stolen from compromised supplier of Royal Mail, Samsung
Updated Stamp it out: Infostealer malware at German outfit may be culprit
Cyber-crime03 Apr 2025 | 10
UK govt data people not 'technical,' says ex-Downing St data science head
Despite pockets of excellence, many wouldn't make the grade in business, AI advisor implies
Public Sector28 Mar 2025 | 142
FaunaDB shuts down but hints at open source future
Capital costs of creating document-relational serverless database take their toll
Databases24 Mar 2025 | 2
Big Red, Microsoft roll out Azure database services for more mainstream Oracle users
Enterprise Edition to be offered on OCI inside Redmond's cloud
Databases20 Mar 2025 | 1
MariaDB reboots DBaaS plans with open source at the core
Five years after it launched its first database service, the MySQL fork is trying again
Databases12 Mar 2025 |
The IT world moves fast, so why are admins slow to upgrade?
Comment Mission-critical app migration, 'if it ain't broke...' and more. All that glitters isn't gold when it comes to biz needs
Databases10 Mar 2025 | 91
IBM plans to buy open source Cassandra wrangler DataStax
Big Blue eyes integration with its AI development studio
Databases25 Feb 2025 | 1
Data is very valuable, just don't ask us to measure it, leaders say
After fifteen years of big hype, less than 25% of orgs measure value of data, analytics
Databases21 Feb 2025 | 24
Oracle extends 19c database support to 2032, making it 'longest strategic release'
Meanwhile, on-prem version of 23ai remains uncertain
Databases18 Feb 2025 | 3
Users await the fine print on SAP Business Suite reboot
Cloud-based revival should come with 'a corresponding discount scale,' customers say
Applications14 Feb 2025 | 4
Analysts welcome ACID transactions on real-time distributed Aerospike
The little database company with big users gaining fans as it adds consistency to speed and scale
Databases13 Feb 2025 | 3
Why SAP may be mulling 2030 end of maintenance for legacy ERP
Users' sluggish migration of critical apps mean current deadline not workable, says analyst
Databases12 Feb 2025 | 21
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