Delta Lake and Iceberg communities collide – in a good way
Table format loved by Apple and Netflix gets boost after Databricks merger
Databases15 Apr 2025 |
Databases
CIO and digi VP to depart UK retail giant Asda as Walmart divorce woes settle
Exclusive Brit retailer says troubled breakup with tech platform of former US owner nearing conclusion
On-Prem14 Apr 2025 | 15
Return of Redis creator bears fruit with vector set data type
LLM query caching also lands soon
Databases10 Apr 2025 | 5
UK officials insist 'murder prediction tool' algorithms purely abstract
Even though policing department spent 2 years on 'Minority Report' evoking study predicting which criminals will become killers
Public Sector09 Apr 2025 | 63
Home Office haunted by 25-year-old asylum system
'Full benefit' of replacement will not be realized until old one is shut down, projects watchdog warns
Databases04 Apr 2025 | 52
Asda's tech separation from Walmart nears £1B as delays mount
Lenders told of £175 million project top-up for 2025, four years after buyout
On-Prem01 Apr 2025 | 16
Interest in SAP cloud migration triples in its biz heartland
User group chairman warns, however, that ERP giant's pace is not feasible for every org
Databases25 Mar 2025 |
Palantir suggests 'common operating system' for UK govt data
Comment 'Don't wait for another pandemic or civil challenge,' says US spy-tech biz
Databases25 Mar 2025 | 52
FaunaDB shuts down but hints at open source future
Capital costs of creating document-relational serverless database take their toll
Databases24 Mar 2025 | 2
Oracle Cloud says it's not true someone broke into its login servers and stole data
Despite evidence to the contrary as alleged pilfered info goes on sale
Cyber-crime23 Mar 2025 | 28
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
SAP legacy ERP customers still in no rush to adopt latest platform
Even looming support deadline isn't tempting ECC users to haul themselves over to S/4HANA, say analysts
Databases20 Mar 2025 | 12
Celonis slaps SAP with lawsuit claiming it's gatekeeping customer data
Process mining specialist accuses the ERP giant of rigging game with fees, restrictions, and a closed ecosystem
Databases17 Mar 2025 | 13
City council rejects inquiry into £130M Oracle IT disaster
Opposition faults leadership as officers accused of misleading councillors
Databases13 Mar 2025 | 62
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 |
Europe's largest council kept auditors in the dark on Oracle rollout fiasco for 10 months
It took a whistleblower to expose disastrous ERP go-live
Databases11 Mar 2025 | 61
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
Oracle outage hits US Federal health records systems
Big Red pushes restart button after users locked out of apps across Veterans Affairs hospitals, other govt departments
Databases07 Mar 2025 | 16
Microsoft SQL Server 2019 shuffles out of mainstream support
The fate of Skype is sad, but the clock is ticking for enterprises
Databases04 Mar 2025 | 4
Ex-SAP CTO walks away with €7.1M payout after scandal
Criminal probe understood to have ended following settlement over 'inconsiderate' behavior
Databases03 Mar 2025 | 22
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Uncle Sam kills funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program
Updated Because vulnerability management has nothing to do with national security, right?
4chan, the 'internet’s litter box,' appears to have been pillaged by rival forum
Source code, moderator info, IP addresses, more allegedly swiped and leaked
Trump derails Chinese H20 GPU sales, forcing Nvidia to eat $5.5B this quarter
World War Fee So much for Jensen's million-dollar dinner at Mar-a-Lago
CVE program gets last-minute funding from CISA – and maybe a new home
Uncertainty is the new certainty
AWS claims 50% of Azure workloads would jump ship if licensing costs allowed
Bezos' biz and Google tell regulator higher cost of running Windows Server in their clouds isn't fair
Team Trump readies national security card to justify taxing Americans for foreign chips
World War Fee There's a new tariff in town
Guess what happens when ransomware fiends find 'insurance' 'policy' in your files
It involves a number close to three or six depending on the pickle you're in
Pentagon needs China's rare earths, Beijing just put them behind a permit wall. Oops
World war fee Trump’s tremendous trade tussle triggers troubling twist, theoretically
White House confirms 245% tariff on some Chinese imports not a typo
World War Fee Just make it 420.69 and be done with it, Mr President
Now 1.6M people had SSNs, life chapter and verse stolen from insurance IT biz
800K? Make that double, and we'll need a double, too, for the pain
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FYI: An appeals court may kill a GNU GPL software license
Updated Defense of FOSS licensing rests on the shoulders of a guy in Virginia
Databases27 Feb 2025 | 78
IBM plans to buy open source Cassandra wrangler DataStax
Big Blue eyes integration with its AI development studio
Databases25 Feb 2025 | 1
Mega council officers had no idea what they were buying ahead of Oracle fiasco
Lack of skills left Birmingham officials unable to challenge suppliers and with a system incapable of managing finances
Databases25 Feb 2025 | 114
Hurrah! AI won't destroy developer or DBA jobs
Uncle Sam's number-crunchers warn lawyers, customer service reps to brace for change, say techies will be fine
Databases25 Feb 2025 | 11
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
DXC paid 50% more than original contract value for disastrous public sector Oracle project
Updated Systems integrator secured 'variation' just before mega SAP migration put on hold
Databases20 Feb 2025 | 43
Oracle extends 19c database support to 2032, making it 'longest strategic release'
Meanwhile, on-prem version of 23ai remains uncertain
Databases18 Feb 2025 | 3
UK electrical utility seeks partner for £81M SAP overhaul as support deadline closes in
Integrations with third-party software await chosen provider
Databases18 Feb 2025 | 11
Bank of England Oracle Cloud bill balloons – but when you print money, who's counting?
Old Lady of Threadneedle Street to pay millions for 'amended implementation methodology'
Databases17 Feb 2025 | 26
Backup software vendor Veeam deleted forum data after restoration SNAFU
DevOps team did the dirty on a database
Disaster Recovery Week17 Feb 2025 | 7
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
SAP snared in revenue trap unless it extends legacy ERP support
User can still push for perpetual licenses despite vendor's craving for subscription deals
Databases13 Feb 2025 | 7
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
Oracle makes Fusion apps available on EU Sovereign Cloud
GDPR-compliant service pitched for public sector orgs who can't pipe data offsite
PaaS + IaaS11 Feb 2025 | 3
Microsoft open sources PostgreSQL extensions to muscle in on NoSQL
Analysis But will it set a real standard for MongoDB alternatives?
Databases11 Feb 2025 | 12
Veterans Affairs reboots Oracle health records project for $330M
Concerns around unfixed problems remain after system resulted in harm to some 150 patients
Databases06 Feb 2025 | 12
Palantir designed to 'power the West to its obvious innate superiority,' says CEO
Um, does anyone wanna switch seats?
Applications04 Feb 2025 | 62
Mega city council's Oracle finance fix faces further delays
Third-party software sticking plaster expected six months late
Databases03 Feb 2025 | 39
Guess who left a database wide open, exposing chat logs, API keys, and more? Yup, DeepSeek
Oh someone's in DeepShi...
CSO30 Jan 2025 | 71
Oracle finance system at Europe's largest city council still falls short 2.5 years later
Auditors find solution design 'was not fully resolved' when it went live in 2022
Databases29 Jan 2025 | 22
Microsoft builds open source document database on PostgreSQL, suggests FerretDB as front end
We're not in Kansas anymore
Databases27 Jan 2025 | 23
UK council selling the farm (and the fire station) to fund ballooning Oracle project
West Sussex helplessly watches price tag go from £2.6M to 'oh my God'
Databases27 Jan 2025 | 140
AWS declares it's Iceberg all the way until customers say otherwise
Cloud giant explains its thinking behind support for Apache open table format
Databases20 Jan 2025 |
Foundation model for tabular data slashes training from hours to seconds
Good ol' spreadsheet data could benefit from 'revolutionary' approach to ML inferences
Databases15 Jan 2025 | 10
Oracle open source overlord calls it quits, leaves with big ol' pile of shares
38-year veteran Edward Screven led technology and architecture decisions since Sun merger
Databases14 Jan 2025 | 5
Life lesson: Don't delete millions of accounts on the same day you go to the dentist
Who, Me? Or ignore documentation that warns you are about to do something dangerous
Databases13 Jan 2025 | 65
Mail-out madness as insurer offers refunds to customers in error
Hastings has a mystery to solve – how did all those customers get offered refunds?
Databases10 Jan 2025 | 45
Stumbling ERP project racks up sales losses greater than budget
South African retailer struggles with SAP implementation, says it is making improvements
Databases03 Jan 2025 | 7
It's been 20 years since Oracle bought two software rivals, changing the market forever
Feature After lawsuits and poison pills, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards failed to resist the lure of Larry's ambition
Databases02 Jan 2025 | 20
AWS follows Iceberg path to unite analytics platform
Analysis But other obstacles remain before developers get free choice of storage and analytics engines
Databases02 Jan 2025 |
Eight things that should not have happened last year, but did
Opinion 2024's Tech Fail Roll Of Dishonor
Bootnotes01 Jan 2025 | 116
London's Met Police seeks business services, ERP refresh in £370M deal
Contract could be worth a cool £1 billion if associated organizations join
Databases17 Dec 2024 | 9
AWS now renting monster HPE servers, even in clusters of 7,680-vCPUs and 128TB
Heir to Superdome goes cloudy for those who run large in-memory databases and apps that need them
Off-Prem17 Dec 2024 | 20
Oracle gets Big Red reality check after financials fail to impress
Strong year ends with a dip, but Ellison signs Meta deal to boost AI cred
Databases10 Dec 2024 | 4
SAP says GenAI will help solve legacy migration skills shortage
As 2027 support deadline looms, German vendor puts faith in on-trend tech to help SIs do more with less
Databases10 Dec 2024 | 15
Foursquare to close, but Swarm game will live on
And the company is doing the right thing with its database
Databases27 Nov 2024 | 7
UK council still hadn't fully costed troubled Oracle project 2 years in
Updated Meanwhile, budget clambered from £2.6M to nearly £40M, says report
Databases26 Nov 2024 | 54
Microsoft Fabric promises transactions, analytics on one database service
Ignite Windows giant also improving Iceberg support after throwing lot in with Delta Parquet
Databases19 Nov 2024 | 6
Database warhorse SQL Server 2025 goes all-in on AI
Ignite Better locking, improved query optimization, and... Copilot
Databases19 Nov 2024 | 5
UK tax collector inks £366M in ERP deals to get systems into cloud
SAP and Deloitte winners in transition from legacy software to SaaS, which includes housing and transport ministries
Databases18 Nov 2024 |
Microsoft Power Pages misconfigurations exposing sensitive data
NHS supplier that leaked employee info fell victim to fiddly access controls that can leave databases dangling online
Security15 Nov 2024 | 6
Snowflake opens chat-driven access to enterprise and third-party data
Cortex-powered front end for easier access to insights across multiple sources
Databases13 Nov 2024 |
Europe's largest local authority slammed for 'poorest' ERP rollout ever
Government-appointed commissioners say Birmingham severely lacked Oracle skills during disastrous implementation
Databases08 Nov 2024 | 73
Single-platform approach may fall short for AI data management
Data platform vendors can't meet all your needs, warns Gartner
Databases07 Nov 2024 | 3
Users struggle with recipe when moving enterprise apps to the cloud
From meatballs and spaghetti to lasagna – same ingredients, different structure, says analyst
Databases05 Nov 2024 | 8
NHS would be hit by 'significant' costs if UK loses EU data status, warn Lords
As another government yet again seeks to reform UK GDPR, legislators say data must continue to flow
Public Sector23 Oct 2024 | 189
OpenAI's rapid growth loaded with 'corner case' challenges, says Fivetran CEO
Interview GenAI poster child is a 100-story-tall baby with simple infrastructure but extreme demands
Databases23 Oct 2024 |
Clock's ticking on PostgreSQL 12, but not everyone is ready to say goodbye
11% of databases still on aging version with a month of support left
Databases22 Oct 2024 | 11
UK authority struggles to RISE with SAP, throws another £9M at project
Gloucestershire continues with legacy system as SaaS replacement delayed by more than a year
Databases21 Oct 2024 | 13
Someone's finally taking on £10M Hull City Council ERP deal to replace Oracle
Step forward Workday after mega long procurement to support system that went live 22 years ago
Databases18 Oct 2024 | 23
Inexorable march of progress at SAP threatens to leave users behind
AI hardly a hot topic with some customers calling for more innovation on-prem
Databases16 Oct 2024 | 4
NHS England warned about plans to extend Covid-era rules for patient data access
Governance and public consultation need work before rule change goes ahead
Databases16 Oct 2024 | 9
Big data vendors introduce Apache Iceberg features in same week
Market rivals settle on open table format, while Microsoft and Databricks go their own way
Databases14 Oct 2024 | 4
Get more licenses for less with SAP price tiering, advise experts
German ERP vendor entices users to cloud, but be aware of how the system works, ITAM experts warn
Databases14 Oct 2024 | 4
Tencent builds one NoSQL database to rule all data models
Exclusive Tamed DB sprawl and saved cloudy resources with 'X-Stor'
Databases11 Oct 2024 | 8
Workday beats Oracle and Microsoft in UK 'Matrix' ERP deal
The SaaS-only provider and Cognizant snag £144.3M in gov software shake-up
Databases08 Oct 2024 | 8
SAP offers different way to move SQL Server-based software to the cloud
Just don’t call it an alternative to RISE with SAP
Databases07 Oct 2024 | 3
The force is strong in Iceberg: Are the table format wars entering the final chapter?
Interview Former Apple engineer and Apache PMC member Russell Spitzer describes efforts to unite around a single format
Databases03 Oct 2024 | 26
Mega supermarket spots stock discrepancy of tens of millions amid ERP system migration
Exclusive Britain's Asda admits tech divorce from ex-owner Walmart is still overrunning
Databases03 Oct 2024 | 109
MongoDB rebuts claims it's not ready for business critical workloads
Shifting battle-hardened systems to document model – are your skills and tools ready?
Databases03 Oct 2024 | 24
Oracle settles customer NetSuite dispute out of court
Allegations of fraud and unfair business practices dismissed after private mediation
Databases30 Sep 2024 | 3
Cockroach Labs CEO: Diverse database models are essential as app demands surge
Interview Licensing mixes also needed lest vendors give too much away
Databases27 Sep 2024 |
Data harvesting superapp admits it struggled to wield data – until it built an LLM
Engineers at Grab don't need to ask each other questions any more
AI + ML27 Sep 2024 | 9
SAP support auto-renewal gotcha: Do nothing now, pay for another year
Updated Single digit price hikes suspected for UK and Europe and double digit mooted for everywhere else
Databases26 Sep 2024 | 13
Snowflake seeks to raise funds with $2B bond sale
Poorly received by investors, the moves comes in a difficult year
Databases24 Sep 2024 | 4
Majority of Redis users considering alternatives after less permissive licensing move
Valkey leads interest in FOSS alternatives after database slinger tightens terms
Databases20 Sep 2024 | 19
Europe's largest city council: Oracle ERP allocated £2B in transactions to wrong year
Workers forced to manually correct setup that struggles to produce auditable accounts after customizations
Databases20 Sep 2024 | 51
ERP modernization? Admins have heard of it
Back-end systems fail to get the love given to SaaSy customer-facing counterparts
Databases19 Sep 2024 | 6
UK pensions department's project to unite government ERP systems comes to £1.9B
Four branches attempt to streamline HR and business processes
Public Sector18 Sep 2024 | 12
Prosecutors confirm probe into SAP CTO amid allegations of sexual harassment
Jürgen Müller agreed to step down from his role at the end of September
Databases17 Sep 2024 | 2
Sainsbury's bags a ticket to RISE with SAP, hoping not to trip like Asda
UK's second largest retailer set to move ERP to the cloud with AWS, Accenture, and the German software gaint
Databases17 Sep 2024 | 5
Snowflake's Unistore still on ice years after announcement
Cloud unicorn struggles to make database that can do everything 'margin positive'
Databases16 Sep 2024 | 3
RISE with SAP sinking year on year
Updated Gartner: ERP giant’s flagship cloud-and-upgrade package falls as a ratio of total sales with support deadline looming
Databases16 Sep 2024 | 6
As Oracle's AWS deal completes Big 3 triumvirate, questions remain over licensing
Analysis Some users will see the appeal of Big Red stacking its hardware in Amazon's datacenters
Databases13 Sep 2024 | 21
Redis justifies open source shift with fresh hardware, LLM cost-saving features
Interview CEO argues more restrictive licensing was key to DB refresh, and says team 'expected' the fork
Databases12 Sep 2024 | 1
Private equity commits MariaDB takeover transaction
Post-IPO chapter ends after SQL biz shed jobs, products in bid to find buyer
Databases10 Sep 2024 | 7
Oracle reports rising top line as it hooks up database service to AWS
Plus: CTO Larry says Big Red uses hardware 'efficiently' but 'labor sparingly because labor is a security risk'
Databases10 Sep 2024 | 4
Cassandra redesigns indexing, storage management for 5.0 release
Users warned to get off 3.x releases as support ends
Databases10 Sep 2024 |
Key aspects of Palantir's Federated Data Platform lack legal basis, lawyers tell NHS England
Exclusive Unless solution found, patients must be allowed to opt out
Databases05 Sep 2024 | 60
SAP CTO bows out over 'incident' at company shindig
Board member offers apology for 'inappropriate' behavior
Databases03 Sep 2024 | 18
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