Voltron Data revs up hyper-speed analytics, leaves Snowflake in the dust GPU-based system offers high performance off Parquet files Databases19 Mar 2024 | 2
RISE with SAP plan fails to hit go-live date in West of England council Updated Delays spark fears of £500K legacy support bill, plans for new financial year Databases15 Mar 2024 | 11
Oracle investors hear the magic word 'Nvidia' and boom! Buy, buy, buy Forget the piffle about real world results, let's look at the potential of wundertech Databases12 Mar 2024 |
Home Office’s shiny immigration system glitches causing delays Amid reports emerge of technical issues, immigration teams keep 24-year-old legacy system up and running Public Sector12 Mar 2024 | 25
PlanetScale ends free tier bid, sheds staff in profitability bid CEO defends decision in difficult tech market Databases11 Mar 2024 | 1
How to Netflix Oracle’s blockbuster audit model Opinion Terms and conditions apply. Lawyers need not Databases11 Mar 2024 | 31
'We had to educate Oracle about our contract,' CIO says after Big Red audit Estimates put audits at $3B revenue for Ellison's company, so go at your own pace, experts recommend Databases06 Mar 2024 | 58
Class action claims Snowflake is an overhyped sales blizzard Investors unhappy after 2022 revenue guidance cut Databases05 Mar 2024 | 2
Google advances with vector search in MySQL, leapfrogging Oracle in LLM support Meanwhile, only 22% of orgs are looking at GenAI strategy for databases Databases04 Mar 2024 | 2
Ellison-backed med tech startup Project Ronin closes doors Built on OCI, the cancer-focused analytics company struggled to find sufficient paying customers, one report claimed Databases04 Mar 2024 | 8
Snowflake share price falls after revenue forecasts dip below expectations CEO Frank Slootman announces retirement as former data cloud rising star sees value sink Databases29 Feb 2024 | 8
Oracle Cerner system implementation risks future patient deaths, coroner warns Doctors voiced concern over lack of Red-Amber-Green rating system, says report Databases29 Feb 2024 | 12
Lender threatens to sweep MariaDB accounts over private equity bid Publicity around offer breaches loan agreement, or so SEC filing alleges Databases23 Feb 2024 | 12
Web archive user's $14k BigQuery bill shock after running queries on 'free' dataset Researcher makes case for default limits after arriving via Python library Databases22 Feb 2024 | 38
City council megaproject mulls ditching Oracle after budget balloons to £131M As bankrupt local authority slashes services and hikes taxes, consultants enjoy £1k-a-day while system still can't offer auditable accounts Databases22 Feb 2024 | 125
Oracle faces continued legal battle over alleged NetSuite software misrepresentations Judge allows fraud case to continue after customer resubmits complaint Databases21 Feb 2024 | 8
MariaDB receives offer to go private more than year after disastrous IPO $37.3M bid significantly down from SPAC flotation valued at $672M Databases20 Feb 2024 | 7
Legal campaigners challenge UK.gov decision to redact NHS-Palantir contract Federated Data Platform agreement merits pre-action letter from Good Law Project Databases20 Feb 2024 | 22
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City of London ditches Oracle for SAP in search of ERP enlightenment Updated Four years after first approaching market for new system, public body hopes to start working with SI Databases19 Feb 2024 | 43
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Unit4 software's budget bungle leaves schools counting the cost MP calls on council to ensure education teams can plan their financial futures Databases13 Feb 2024 | 21
SAP makes last-minute change to replacement of 80-year-old co-founder After lining up someone to fill Hasso Plattner's seat, German ERP giant finds candidate has 'difference in perspective' Databases12 Feb 2024 | 5
Billions lost to fraud and error during UK's pandemic spending spree Watchdog orders a rethink in time for the next emergency Public Sector09 Feb 2024 | 152
Oracle database deal in Azure comes with a health warning from licensing experts Updated Five months after cloud love-in, critics worry about costs of deploying Oracle hardware and DBs in Microsoft’s cloud Databases05 Feb 2024 | 9
Whether to move off Oracle is the $100M+ question for Europe's largest public body After car-crash implementation, Birmingham City Council must weigh up options after current problems are fixed Databases05 Feb 2024 | 68
SAP dangles juicy carrot to pull users on board with cloud-first vision Limited-time offer may reduce cost of migration by up to 50% Databases30 Jan 2024 | 2
CockroachDB tempts legacy databases to crawl into the cloud age Distributed system makes a grab for Oracle, Db2 features Databases29 Jan 2024 | 5
ServiceNow banks double digit sales gains amid push into enterprise workflow Beats analyst estimates, talks up genAI and yet share price wobbles briefly Databases25 Jan 2024 |
€2B SAP restructure program will affect 8,000 roles Plans announced as profits fall and revenues rise Databases24 Jan 2024 | 1
Oracle continues GenAI push into enterprise data Don't leave us for LLM systems in other clouds, says Big Red Databases23 Jan 2024 |
Asda's delayed SAP migration forces extension to Walmart's backend support contract Three years after leveraged buyout, $240M ERP plan yet to bear fruit Databases23 Jan 2024 | 19
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SAP reshuffles leadership as cloud crusade continues New moves follow year where customers complained it broke their trust Databases10 Jan 2024 | 3
Expert sounds alarm bells over upcoming NHS data platform Research warns not to make the same mistakes as other electronic patient record systems Databases05 Jan 2024 | 18
Open source PostgreSQL named DBMS of the year by DB-Engines Already more than 37 years old, the relational system continues to gain popularity Databases03 Jan 2024 | 16
Google flaunts concurrency, optimization as cloud rivals overhaul platforms Feature Details sub-CPU allotments, performant Iceberg tables after Microsoft, Databricks bring market noise Databases03 Jan 2024 |
NHS England published heavily redacted Palantir contract as festivities began Health org that previously promised it learned its lesson on transparency will ███, ███, and ███ Databases02 Jan 2024 | 95
Postgres pioneer Michael Stonebraker promises to upend the database once more Interview Turing Award winner whose research and startups broke ground for five decades, tells The Reg he has more up his sleeve Databases26 Dec 2023 | 71
HMRC launches £500M procurement for new ERP, though project's already a 'red' risk Rivals will need to dislodge incumbent SAP in competition for 5-year deal across three departments Databases19 Dec 2023 | 16
Oracle share price slides as it misses revenue expectations Still, Ellison talks up cloud margins, says 100 datacenters don't cost more 'to run' than 10 Databases12 Dec 2023 | 14
Health crusaders prep legal challenge over NHS mega contract with Palantir Updated Groups claim Federated Data Platform requires new legislation to go ahead Databases01 Dec 2023 | 10
The AI everything show continues at AWS: Generate SQL from text, vector search, and more re:Invent Invisible watermarks on AI-generated images? Sure. But major tools in the stack matter most Databases30 Nov 2023 | 6
SAP faces more accusations of breaching on-prem customers' trust Cloud-only innovation strategy slammed as users opt for on-prem and hosted support for S/4HANA Databases30 Nov 2023 | 11
IBM's vintage Db2 database jumps on AWS's cloud bandwagon Updated Users on the mainframe will have to wait for their system to become available in the cloud service, though Databases29 Nov 2023 | 7
Couchbase takes fight to MongoDB with columnar side store upgrade DBaaS update aimed at customers looking for live analytics on apps Databases28 Nov 2023 |
Microsoft, Databricks double act tries to sew up the data platform market Analysis But the one-stop shop vision fails to take it far beyond the competition Databases27 Nov 2023 | 2
Palantir bags £330M NHS data bonanza despite privacy fears Award follows £1 deal during pandemic and £60 million in non-competitive contracts Databases22 Nov 2023 | 35
Microsoft touts mirroring over moving in data warehouse gambit Ignite Fabric update cuts against the grain, and may have more to do with Databricks partnerships Databases15 Nov 2023 |
Oracle off the hook for fraud but judge allows breach of contract claim to continue Building material supplier left without functional ERP can amend claim Databases08 Nov 2023 | 13
Pharma boffins sharpen hunt for target molecules using graph DB French pharma firm Servier gets Neo4j to help find relationships in 'messy' data Databases08 Nov 2023 | 1
SAP jumps on AI-assisted coding wagon, but uses its own ABAP language The cloud-only move may leave out devs writing for on-prem systems, which still make up the majority Databases07 Nov 2023 | 2
Splunk sheds 7% of workers amid Cisco's $28B embrace Have another great quarter? Time to get rid of some staff, then Databases01 Nov 2023 | 5
MariaDB Foundation CEO claims 'sanity' has returned to MariaDB plc Exclusive Kaj Arnö mulls cash crisis, de-listing threat, job cuts, and strategy rewrite at MySQL fork vendor Databases01 Nov 2023 | 21
Unit4 ditching on-prem in favor of SaaS come 2025 Exclusive Clients have a little over a year to get their affairs in order Databases31 Oct 2023 | 13
Half a billion pound NHS data platform award still stuck in the pipes Palantir users' endorsement letter could lay the ground for Palantir win Databases20 Oct 2023 | 11
Analysts scratch heads over MariaDB's decision to ditch DBaaS crown jewels 'Their future is murky at the moment' Databases19 Oct 2023 | 5
In-memory database Redis wants to dabble in disk Aims to lower costs and broaden appeal of system popular with devs Databases19 Oct 2023 | 10
TileDB secures $34M to reimagine databases, not just collect GitHub stars System aims to clean mess of high-performance analytics cluttering the modern data stack Databases17 Oct 2023 | 3
Birmingham set to miss deadline to make Oracle disaster 'safe and compliant' Bankrupt council is like 'ship adrift' – lacks financial info in midst of equal pay nightmare Databases16 Oct 2023 | 32
MariaDB ditches products and staff in restructure, bags $26.5M loan to cushion fall Strategic DBaaS and distributed back end jettisoned after years of promotion Databases13 Oct 2023 | 12
SAP barely moving needle to migrate users off ECC before support ends Gartner finds only a third are somewhat prepared for S/4HANA transition Databases11 Oct 2023 | 7
Microsoft extends life support for aging Apache Cassandra 3.11 database But only if you're ready to cozy up in Azure's abode Databases10 Oct 2023 |
SAP customers on brink of ERPocalypse as 2025 support cliff looms for ECC When German vendor promised service until 2027, not everyone qualified Databases10 Oct 2023 | 10
In rare bout of generosity, Oracle extends free support for Database 19c Big Red says it wants to give customers time to upgrade to 23c, which only exists in the cloud for now Databases06 Oct 2023 | 5
DuckDB shuns VC breadcrumbs so support isn't all it's quacked up to be Company behind popular in-process OLAP system feels weight of success Databases05 Oct 2023 | 1
City council Oracle megaproject got a code red – and they went live anyway Poor security and segregation of duties also worry auditors Databases04 Oct 2023 | 60
MongoDB promises to keep its hands off application building Yet history tells us it's an ever present temptation to grab greater chunks of the stack Databases03 Oct 2023 | 1
Lost your luggage? That's nothing – we just lost your whole flight! Who, me? Tech's second day on the job nearly saw his high-flying career grounded Databases02 Oct 2023 | 97
Contract for England's controversial health data platform delayed NHS also launches £2M project to engage patients with data strategy Databases29 Sep 2023 | 14
NTT will take those SAP licenses off your hands if it helps ease cloud migration Bid to break impasse where boards only see costs Databases28 Sep 2023 | 5
MongoDB's SQL-to-NoSQL converter uses AI to smash the language barrier Tell it what you want to do, and it spits out the relevant code Databases27 Sep 2023 | 7
Oracle's $130M-plus payday still looms on horizon for Larry and Safra And shareholders – presumably not Ellison who still owns 42% – are still not happy about it Databases26 Sep 2023 | 11
No customer left behind, SAP's Klein tells users angered by cloud-only decision Data quality, system complexity and SAP’s future rely on cloud adoption, CEO relays to German-speaking user group Databases25 Sep 2023 | 15
UK-US data deal could hinge on fate of legal challenges to EU arrangement So much for sovereignty then Databases22 Sep 2023 | 51
VCs lay $52.5M golden egg for MotherDuck's serverless analytics platform Database service vendor based on open source DuckDB fattens up to $400M valuation Databases21 Sep 2023 |
Venture capital firm makes 'unsolicited' bid for MariaDB buyout Database company, which went through an IPO in December last year, was still in search of credit facility as of August Databases19 Sep 2023 | 4
Tabular's Iceberg vision goes from Netflix and chill to database thrill Promise of neutral data layer between vendors' vested interests attracts $26M Databases19 Sep 2023 |
CERN swaps out databases to feed its petabyte-a-day habit Run 3 reboot provoked challenges for Europe's particle-smashing project Databases18 Sep 2023 | 4
Oracle at Europe's largest council didn't foresee bankruptcy Auditors unable to sign off accounts partly due to lack of IT controls amid challenging ERP deployment Databases18 Sep 2023 | 60
Databricks shakes VC money tree and $500M falls out Who needs an IPO when you have Series I? Databases14 Sep 2023 |
Oracle disappoints market with revenue miss as Ellison hints at Azure database move Don't expect 'armies of programmers' to rewrite Cerner, says Larry, talking up low-code app dev platform APEX Databases12 Sep 2023 | 13
Local governments aren't businesses – so why are they force-fed business software? Opinion Oracle's repeated public sector failures prove a different approach is needed Databases11 Sep 2023 | 101
SAP user group calls for support deadline reprieve amid hospital billing worries Schedule is unrealistic... it takes 2 years just to tender, protests board member Databases06 Sep 2023 | 13
Decades-old Home Office asylum system misses EOL deadline, no new timetable in place Exclusive Replacement due more than a decade ago, Casework Information Database soldiers on as case backlog hits record highs Databases06 Sep 2023 | 38
Largest local government body in Europe goes under amid Oracle disaster Authority effectively bankrupt as ERP car crash adds to equal pay liability Databases05 Sep 2023 | 238
Three years after setting off, Bus Open Data Service wants consultants to help it on its journey UK tender hopes to boost beleaguered local bus services Databases05 Sep 2023 | 12
Google wants to takes a byte out of Oracle workloads with PostgreSQL migration service Third-party and bespoke apps most likely candidates for the switch Databases30 Aug 2023 | 15
NHS watchdog expresses vendor lock-in concerns over Federated Data Platform deal Quango must show Palantir does not have unfair advantage in procurement Databases29 Aug 2023 | 8
MariaDB's revenue grows as new CEO settles in, but bank loan discussions continue New exec works on 'strategic, operational and financial reviews' as existing loan maturity nears Databases25 Aug 2023 | 1
Fauna Query Language tamed to appeal to developers Latest revision takes inspiration from TypeScript, Python, and GraphQL Databases22 Aug 2023 | 6
Larry Ellison a major contributor to Blair Institute vaccine database plan A relationship forged in UK government IT continues to blossom Databases10 Aug 2023 | 37
SAP CEO push for cloud-only 'innovation' shatters users' trust in German-speaking heartlands UK and German user groups issue strong statements after Klein courts investors with cloud strategy Databases03 Aug 2023 | 12
AWS and IBM Netezza come out in support of Iceberg in table format face-off Join Snowflake, Cloudera, Google as Apache format fans Databases01 Aug 2023 |
Oracle copyright battle: Rimini Street ordered to correct 'false' statements Both support biz and vendor claim victories in latest chapter in 13-year legal saga Databases28 Jul 2023 |
£214m effort to modernize SAP ERP in UK govt systems marked Code Red Experts warn agreement needed and skills lacking in HMRC-led project Databases27 Jul 2023 | 28
SAP checks cloud forecast to find it's not raining as much revenue as hoped Yet mission vital to ERP giant's financial future remains on track Databases21 Jul 2023 |
Meet the guy trying to drag HM Treasury's data strategy into the 21st century Interview John Kelly is building approach around Microsoft, but there's room for flexibility Databases19 Jul 2023 | 13
Lucky backup might save 100 days of data for InfluxData's GCP Belgium users Updated AWS Sydney users less fortunate – the backup was deleted Databases14 Jul 2023 | 9
InfluxData apologizes for deleting cloud regions without performing 'scream test' Despite attempts to inform customers, some say they never got the memo Databases11 Jul 2023 | 25
UK government's newest department to lead mega ERP procurement Tender designed to bring together 48k users running Oracle, Microsoft and more into 1 SaaS system Databases07 Jul 2023 | 19