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UK government backs away from proposals to remove individuals' rights to challenge AI decision making

Meanwhile, ICO says government should not be choosing its CEO in debate over its future independence

19 Jan 2022 11:48 | 20

Databases

Dev's PostgreSQL experiment probes possibility of zero-downtime schema migration

It has potential, says one expert

12 Jan 2022 09:29 | 11

Databases

All your database are belong to us: Snowflake named DBMS of the year by DB-Engines

Homespun database trackers also see PostgreSQL and MongoDB as hotshots for 2021

06 Jan 2022 17:28 | 5

Databases

Db2, where are you? Big Blue is oddly reluctant to discuss recent enhancements to its flagship database

Cloud-native RDBMS is coming, on AWS and Azure. Yet IBM's only preaching to the choir

23 Dec 2021 12:02 | 54

Databases

Sovereignty? We've heard of it. UK government gives contract to store MI5, MI6 and GCHQ's data to AWS

Hands up who wants to do that info migration

26 Oct 2021 15:15 | 79

Security

Schools email marketing company told us to go away when we told them of exposed database creds, say infoseccers

Usernames and passwords could be read (and abused) by anyone in since fixed flaw

12 Oct 2021 09:15 | 64

Databases

Open-source veteran PostgreSQL emits release 14: Tweaked, scalable, and ready to get heavy

That's the hope as distributed and heavy workloads promised a boost in targeting Oracle for high-end workloads

01 Oct 2021 18:58 | 14

Databases

tz database community up in arms over proposals to merge certain time zones

Handbags at 12 o'clock! Er, is that with or without daylight saving?

28 Sep 2021 08:30 | 125

Databases

Yugabyte's double-decker DBaaS follows Cochroach in distributed RDBMS

Hopes to lure users with promise of relieving operational burden

24 Sep 2021 18:41 | 10

Security

Database containing personal info on 106m people who traveled to Thailand found open to the internet – report

Misconfigured Elasticsearch server blamed

21 Sep 2021 23:36 | 5

Security

Thousands of internet-connected databases contain high or critical CVEs, says report by cloud security biz

Put your data on someone else's computer to keep it safe, urges Imperva

14 Sep 2021 11:30 | 14

Software

Remember the Oracle-botherers at Rimini Street? They are expanding third party support into open source database world

About time: 51 per cent of databases run on open source now

02 Sep 2021 15:35 | 7

Databases

Even Facebook struggles: Zuck's titanic database upgrade hits numerous legacy software bergs

The Social Network™ has spent years trying to hop from MySQL 5.6 to 8.0 and still isn’t done

23 Jul 2021 07:01 | 42

Databases

NASA reaches for graph DB to find people, skills for Moon and Mars missions

Fixing the talent pipeline so that finding rocket scientists doesn't have to be rocket science

01 Jul 2021 01:32 | 2

Databases

PlanetScale grabs YouTube-developed open-source tech, promises Vitess DBaaS with on-the-fly schema changes

Demand growing for scale-y transactional monster, say analysts

18 May 2021 14:15 |

Databases

Rapping otters and automated database knob-twiddling: An obvious combination in some universe or other

OtterTune to compete with Oracle automation, but also for open source databases

14 May 2021 10:45 | 4

Devops

Open-source developers under corporate pressure to adopt less-permissive licenses, Percona CEO says

Cloud hyperscalers drive projects to slap restrictions on code use

13 May 2021 20:32 | 29

Databases

Google proposes Logica data language for building more manageable SQL code

COBOL-inspired caps lock English just don't add up when dealing with large SQL codebases

15 Apr 2021 10:25 | 93

Edge + IoT

Toshiba launches cloudy managed IoT database service running its own GridDB

And ponders whether to let itself be bought by private equiteer CVC for $20bn

08 Apr 2021 02:45 | 1

Updated

You wouldn’t know my new database, she goes to another school: Oracle boasts of earthshattering tech the outside world cannot see

Plus: Ellison ramps up SAP trash-talking. At least some things are the same in 2021

11 Mar 2021 13:12 | 10

Databases

DataStax 'pauses' AIOps database project to figure out exactly what AIOps is

Some enterprise folk less keen on cloudy machine learning

23 Feb 2021 09:36 | 5

Databases

Time to haul DBaaS: Neo4j joins the fully managed club as doubts linger about its cloudiness

It was a first mover for graph DBs, but cloud is full of rivals

27 Jan 2021 18:43 | 1

Databases

Dynamic Data do-over denied: Judge upholds $7m patent infringement claim against Microsoft

Shenanigans called on ASP.NET scaffolding tech

26 Jan 2021 20:09 | 10

Databases

Teasing HANA database upgrade, SAP leaves crowd wondering if software giant has lost its innovation mojo

Great to know they 'remain committed'

14 Jan 2021 20:10 | 3

Databases

Theranos destroyed crucial subpoenaed SQL blood test database, can't unlock backups, prosecutors say

CEO Holmes also accused of funding extravagant lifestyle through fraud

12 Jan 2021 03:28 | 61

Databases

Ethical power supplier People's Energy hacked, 250,000 customers' personal info accessed

Financial info swiped for 15 small-biz clients, too

17 Dec 2020 21:06 | 32

Databases

75% of databases to be cloud-hosted by 2022, says Gartner while dishing on the weak points of each provider

AWS 'reluctant to embrace a multicloud world' but Azure 'often more expensive than on-premises'

02 Dec 2020 14:30 | 28

Databases

MongoDB loses its mind with marketing budget movie mania: Yep, it's choose-your-own-adventure Hackers with drop-down menus

This must have cost a packet...

25 Nov 2020 09:03 | 12

Databases

Redis becomes the most popular database on AWS as complex cloud application deployments surge

No diggity, NoSQL

23 Nov 2020 15:22 | 16

Databases

Databricks: Ugh, just look at that messy data lake environment. Squints. You know... we could sort that out with a sweet shot of SQL

Data-wrangler previews another lakehouse concept tool

13 Nov 2020 19:32 |

Databases

Banking software firm tiptoes off to the cloud with MariaDB after $2m Oracle licence shocker

Licence to float...

10 Nov 2020 13:04 | 62

Databases

MongoDB rolls out pick 'n' mix multi-cloud DBaaS, hopes to win over footdraggers by playing well with AWS, Google, Microsoft

Falls short as a generalist database playa, though, says analyst

20 Oct 2020 17:02 | 6

Databases

Adventures in SQL Server 2019: Microsoft updates the update that broke the update

I don't know why she swallowed the fly...

02 Oct 2020 19:06 | 4

Interview

Couchbase set to bring app multi-tenancy to its NoSQL document-store database

7.0 release will give devs power to lay out their microservice architecture

02 Oct 2020 10:00 | 8

Register Debate

Should we all consolidate databases for the storage benefits? Reg vultures deploy DevOps, zoos, haircuts

As the wisdom of the crowd decides

18 Sep 2020 12:00 | 11

Register Debate

Storage consolidation: Simplifying infrastructure will pay dividends for your apps

And let me tell you why in three words: Developers! Developers! Developers!

16 Sep 2020 18:00 | 1

Register Debate

Storage consolidation: Why different flavors of database need different types of storage

You can bring a horse to water but you can't turn it into a fish

16 Sep 2020 14:00 | 6

Databases

Aerospike drags mainframes kicking and screaming into the modern world by feeding their data through Apache Spark

ML, analytics connector reduces memory demand, says database firm

16 Sep 2020 08:30 | 6

Reader survey

If you're modernizing your complex database stack and keep glancing at better storage, you're not alone

We polled you IT pros out there on your info silo plans – and here are the results

15 Sep 2020 22:23 | 1

Register Debate

Consolidating databases has significant storage benefits – and therefore everyone should be doing it

Save yourself money, save yourself space

14 Sep 2020 18:00 | 12

Register Debate

Database consolidation is a server gain. Storage vendors should butt out

Cost benefits are oversold – and may be completely wrong

14 Sep 2020 13:00 | 17

Databases

Open-source database outfit Redis Labs grabs $100m funding as it seeks to be about more than just cold, hard cache

'If speed is not important, there are 300 other solutions'

25 Aug 2020 13:35 | 6

Databases

SQLite maximum database size increased to 281TB – but will anyone need one that big?

An unlikely requirement for an engine popular on Android and iOS

19 Aug 2020 08:07 | 60

Databases

Deep-root database: Kew Garden's 8 million specimen collection to find new life through data management

Finally, a digital transformation that really matters

13 Aug 2020 10:11 | 18

Databases

AWS adds database on-ramp to its Arm-powered instances

Automation tool RDS can now push MySQL and PostgreSQL onto Arm, MariaDB coming soon

03 Aug 2020 05:01 |

Databases

It must have been love, but it's over now: Rockset tries to break up storage and compute, meet transactional, data-warehouse systems in middle

Propositions database land with a 'real-time' system

28 Jul 2020 13:56 | 4

Databases

It's a Meow-nixed system, I know this: Purr-fect storm of 3,000+ insecure databases – and a data-wiping bot

ProtoVPN IP range fingrered as source of destructive attacks

24 Jul 2020 21:18 | 35

Databases

Seven 'no log' VPN providers accused of leaking – yup, you guessed it – 1.2TB of user logs onto the internet

Maybe it was the old Lionel Hutz play: 'No-logging VPN? I meant, No! Logging VPN!'

17 Jul 2020 21:51 | 73

Databases

Cloud swings Chinese database market behind local developers

Oracle rules on-prem, but Alibaba owns the cloud ... and here comes Huawei

13 Jul 2020 04:58 | 1

Databases

Erudite, insightful, self-aware and almost human: Give your local database admin a hug – it's DBA Appreciation Day

We said, we hope you get some downtime. Oh never mind. Come on, it's just once a year

03 Jul 2020 08:30 | 10

Databases

Database maestro Antirez says arrivederci to Redis: Seems he wants an unstructured life writing code, not a structured one managing software

Open-source database project gets new heads, inclusive code of conduct

30 Jun 2020 20:49 | 2

Databases

The first rule of NoSQL DBaaS club is: You must talk about NoSQL DBaaS club. And Couchbase is in

Follows its customers into the cloud

30 Jun 2020 19:15 |

Databases

Feds cuff Detroit man for allegedly hacking University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Data pilfered from PeopleSoft HR database sold to tax fraudsters, it is claimed

19 Jun 2020 00:50 | 1

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UK government backs away from proposals to remove individuals' rights to challenge AI decision making

Dev's PostgreSQL experiment probes possibility of zero-downtime schema migration

All your database are belong to us: Snowflake named DBMS of the year by DB-Engines

Db2, where are you? Big Blue is oddly reluctant to discuss recent enhancements to its flagship database

Database company Cockroach Labs more than doubles in value to $5bn

Trouble getting REST APIs into GraphQL? Try our low-code approach, says Hasura

MongoDB logs 50% hike in Q4 sales, beats analysts forecasts for next quarter

MySQL a 'pretty poor database' says departing Oracle engineer

Nutanix, VMware end legal fight over CEO Rajiv Ramaswami

All your database are belong to us: AWS wants every data silo on its platform

MongoDB 5.1 for DBaaS arrives amid questions over on-prem release stability

Sovereignty? We've heard of it. UK government gives contract to store MI5, MI6 and GCHQ's data to AWS

Schools email marketing company told us to go away when we told them of exposed database creds, say infoseccers

Open-source veteran PostgreSQL emits release 14: Tweaked, scalable, and ready to get heavy

tz database community up in arms over proposals to merge certain time zones

Yugabyte's double-decker DBaaS follows Cochroach in distributed RDBMS

Database containing personal info on 106m people who traveled to Thailand found open to the internet – report

Thousands of internet-connected databases contain high or critical CVEs, says report by cloud security biz

Remember the Oracle-botherers at Rimini Street? They are expanding third party support into open source database world

Even Facebook struggles: Zuck's titanic database upgrade hits numerous legacy software bergs

NASA reaches for graph DB to find people, skills for Moon and Mars missions

PlanetScale grabs YouTube-developed open-source tech, promises Vitess DBaaS with on-the-fly schema changes

Rapping otters and automated database knob-twiddling: An obvious combination in some universe or other

Open-source developers under corporate pressure to adopt less-permissive licenses, Percona CEO says

Google proposes Logica data language for building more manageable SQL code

Toshiba launches cloudy managed IoT database service running its own GridDB

You wouldn’t know my new database, she goes to another school: Oracle boasts of earthshattering tech the outside world cannot see

DataStax 'pauses' AIOps database project to figure out exactly what AIOps is

Time to haul DBaaS: Neo4j joins the fully managed club as doubts linger about its cloudiness

Dynamic Data do-over denied: Judge upholds $7m patent infringement claim against Microsoft

Teasing HANA database upgrade, SAP leaves crowd wondering if software giant has lost its innovation mojo

Theranos destroyed crucial subpoenaed SQL blood test database, can't unlock backups, prosecutors say

Ethical power supplier People's Energy hacked, 250,000 customers' personal info accessed

75% of databases to be cloud-hosted by 2022, says Gartner while dishing on the weak points of each provider

MongoDB loses its mind with marketing budget movie mania: Yep, it's choose-your-own-adventure Hackers with drop-down menus

Redis becomes the most popular database on AWS as complex cloud application deployments surge

Databricks: Ugh, just look at that messy data lake environment. Squints. You know... we could sort that out with a sweet shot of SQL

Banking software firm tiptoes off to the cloud with MariaDB after $2m Oracle licence shocker

MongoDB rolls out pick 'n' mix multi-cloud DBaaS, hopes to win over footdraggers by playing well with AWS, Google, Microsoft

Adventures in SQL Server 2019: Microsoft updates the update that broke the update

Couchbase set to bring app multi-tenancy to its NoSQL document-store database

Should we all consolidate databases for the storage benefits? Reg vultures deploy DevOps, zoos, haircuts

Storage consolidation: Simplifying infrastructure will pay dividends for your apps

Storage consolidation: Why different flavors of database need different types of storage

Aerospike drags mainframes kicking and screaming into the modern world by feeding their data through Apache Spark

If you're modernizing your complex database stack and keep glancing at better storage, you're not alone

Consolidating databases has significant storage benefits – and therefore everyone should be doing it

Database consolidation is a server gain. Storage vendors should butt out

Open-source database outfit Redis Labs grabs $100m funding as it seeks to be about more than just cold, hard cache

SQLite maximum database size increased to 281TB – but will anyone need one that big?

Deep-root database: Kew Garden's 8 million specimen collection to find new life through data management

AWS adds database on-ramp to its Arm-powered instances

It must have been love, but it's over now: Rockset tries to break up storage and compute, meet transactional, data-warehouse systems in middle

It's a Meow-nixed system, I know this: Purr-fect storm of 3,000+ insecure databases – and a data-wiping bot

Seven 'no log' VPN providers accused of leaking – yup, you guessed it – 1.2TB of user logs onto the internet

Cloud swings Chinese database market behind local developers

Erudite, insightful, self-aware and almost human: Give your local database admin a hug – it's DBA Appreciation Day

Database maestro Antirez says arrivederci to Redis: Seems he wants an unstructured life writing code, not a structured one managing software

The first rule of NoSQL DBaaS club is: You must talk about NoSQL DBaaS club. And Couchbase is in

Feds cuff Detroit man for allegedly hacking University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

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