We have bigger targets than beating Oracle, say open source DB pioneers
Advocates for MySQL and PostgreSQL see broader future for movement they helped create
Databases25 May 2022 | 12
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CockroachDB adds command line tool as database hits version 22.1
The Register speaks to Jim Walker about maturity and super regions
Databases24 May 2022 | 4
Beware the fury of a database developer torn from tables and SQL
Who, Me? Not so much process privilege rings, more circles of hell
Databases23 May 2022 | 172
Percona launches management system aimed at open-source databases
Percona Live PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL tools for overly busy DBAs, less experienced devs
Databases17 May 2022 |
Oracle really does owe HPE $3b after Supreme Court snub
Appeal petition as doomed as the Itanic chips at the heart of decade-long drama
Databases17 May 2022 | 59
Finnish open-source-as-a-service startup Aiven adds $1bn to valuation
Demand for PostgreSQL and Kafka driving interest in cloud service, CEO tells The Register
Databases13 May 2022 | 3
What 'share of wallet' means and why it matters to SAP
German software giant reprises old motifs at annual show Sapphire
Databases12 May 2022 | 3
A discounting disaster averted at the expense of one's own employment
Who, Me? I know what this process needs: Microsoft Access!
Databases02 May 2022 | 87
Microsoft fixes cross-account vulns in Azure Database for PostgreSQL service
Presented by the Wiz team that found the Cosmos DB flaw
Databases28 Apr 2022 | 2
Aerospike takes swipe at document databases JSON support
MongoDB, Couchbase in the crosshairs as Aerospike tries to broaden use cases
Databases28 Apr 2022 | 1
Oracle to release on-prem software usage tools to prep cloud switch
Experts advise caution in sharing data with Big Red – it could be used in license audits
Databases25 Apr 2022 | 13
Oracle contracts and pricing a 'challenge', says Gartner
While heaping praise on Big Red, analysts find room to criticize licensing, negotiations, and integration
Databases21 Apr 2022 | 6
New graph database features eschew need for DBAs
Python's stranglehold in data science makes Neo4j rethink language strategy
Databases12 Apr 2022 | 3
Db2 13 makes z/OS debut, promises AI, hybrid cloud features
Long-awaited major release welcomed by users who wish IBM would promote it a little more
Databases11 Apr 2022 | 2
Real-time data analytics firm Tinybird nets $37m in Series A
Millions of rows per second in real time, so the legend goes...
Databases05 Apr 2022 | 1
SAP hits 50: Entrenched, spread out and fully middle-aged
Feature Tech’s posterchild of German industrial success must face its failures as it succumbs to midlife angst
Databases01 Apr 2022 | 21
SAP users struggling with data management for S/4HANA migration
UK and Ireland survey reveals difficulties with housekeeping
Databases30 Mar 2022 | 8
PlanetScale offers undo button to reverse schema migration without losing data
Vitess-based database splits system for 30 minutes allowing users to right regrettable changes
Databases24 Mar 2022 | 3
RISE with SAP struggles to gain purchase with German-speaking users
Investment sentiment for S/4HANA drops off while public cloud hosting only two per cent of environments
Databases24 Mar 2022 | 1
SAP wins competition to replace own ageing system at UK council
£7m Gloucestershire County Council deal the first for RISE with SAP in the UK public sector
Databases22 Mar 2022 | 7
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Verified asset management tools help speed Oracle audits
Too bad they don't help customers achieve a position on compliance
Databases21 Mar 2022 | 1
Northwest England councils in £31m SaaS HR system tender
Procurement comes as Manchester City Council looks for SAP next steps
Databases18 Mar 2022 | 5
Openness of Oracle licensing and audit tools questioned
Verified third-party tools do not guarantee compliance position
Databases17 Mar 2022 | 34
IBM Cloudant pulls plan to fund new foundational layer for CouchDB
Apache project mulls options for next big upgrade as Big Blue focuses on 3.x iterations
Databases15 Mar 2022 |
MongoDB to terminate Russian SaaS accounts
No service for NoSQL users contrasts with continuous clouds from other players
Databases15 Mar 2022 | 11
Oracle sees automation opportunity in healthcare following pandemic
Doctor Ellison says big wins in the sector influenced decision to buy health records outfit Cerner
Databases11 Mar 2022 | 5
UK Home Office dangles £20m for national gun licence database system
But potential bidders will have to move fast on this one
Databases11 Mar 2022 | 99
DataStax updates K8ssandra to help Cassandra operate worldwide
Shares multi-cluster lessons from DBaaS in Kubernetes project
Databases08 Mar 2022 |
DBAs massively over-provision Oracle to protect themselves: Microsoft
Cloud migrations can therefore be cost-effective, even with Big Red’s nasty licenses
Databases07 Mar 2022 | 33
Desperately seeking SaaS: English council to replace Oracle R12
Big Red product to become more unstable, unreliable, and less secure after 20 years' use
Databases01 Mar 2022 | 9
Couchbase promises P2P sync in mobile and edge DB
NoSQL slinger sees future in edge and IoT – and 'eventual consistency'
Databases23 Feb 2022 | 5
Scottish universities launch £42m ERP tender
Framework deal to cut across software, services and systems integration
Databases23 Feb 2022 | 8
GraphQL data wrangler Hasura bags $100m investment
25,000 GitHub stars since its introduction in 2017
Databases22 Feb 2022 | 1
Skills shortage puts SAP projects on hold
Business demand creates double whammy on recruitment pressure
Databases21 Feb 2022 | 47
AWS and Elasticsearch settle trademark infringement lawsuit
'There is only one Elasticsearch, and it comes from Elastic'
Databases17 Feb 2022 | 2
All hail the return of the general-purpose database
Distributed SQL and cloud computing have made relational more relevant than ever, says MariaDB
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Expect sales reps' calls if IT wants to ditch Oracle
Licensing and compliance issues advisor spills the beans
Databases15 Feb 2022 | 23
English county council blasted for 'inept project management' in delayed SAP replacement
Questions remain over whether Surrey's £3.2m budget increase will avoid further delay
Databases10 Feb 2022 | 25
Teradata: Public cloud sales soar from low base, majority of business still on-prem
Perpetual software and hardware licenses dive in Q4, consultancy withers on vine
Databases08 Feb 2022 |
Western Australia Health taps SAP and Deloitte for AU$220m SaaS HR system over 10 years
Now, don't do a Queensland
Databases04 Feb 2022 | 9
Exasol pledges to help customers avoid cloud bill shock with new DBaaS
Distributed in-memory system more efficient than other cloud data warehouses, vendor claims
Databases03 Feb 2022 | 1
Workday gets £9.8m deal for second chunk of UK's Student Loans Company project
Oracle replacement project continues as SLC opts for SaaS model
Databases31 Jan 2022 | 15
Despite growth, questions remain over whether SAP can get customers off-prem fast enough to appease investors
€500m cloud investments drag on profit
Databases28 Jan 2022 | 12
Former Oracle execs warn that Big Red's auditing process is also a 'sales enablement tool'
'Most of it – if not all of it – really amounts to fear, uncertainty and doubt'
Databases25 Jan 2022 | 51
Team behind delayed ERP project was aware of problems but didn't inform Surrey County Council for months
Move from SAP to Unit4 held up by comms 'issues' between supplier and authority
Databases24 Jan 2022 | 25
And relax: No repeat car crash financials for SAP in 2021 as cloud services come good
Let's not mention on-premise licences....
Databases15 Jan 2022 | 2
Games Workshop has chucked another £500k at entrenched ERP project with no end to epic battle in sight
Plans for new online shop get seal of approval despite Microsoft Dynamics delays
Databases13 Jan 2022 | 62
Dev's PostgreSQL experiment probes possibility of zero-downtime schema migration
It has potential, says one expert
Databases12 Jan 2022 | 11
Another day, another ERP project behind schedule: This time it's Norfolk County Council and an Oracle system
Cost of over-run was unknown, but won't be as bad as delays at other authorities, council document claims
Databases11 Jan 2022 | 21
When ERP projects go awry: Surrey County Council incurs £3.2m additional costs in delayed Unit4 project
Select committee set to examine causes of the setbacks
Databases10 Jan 2022 | 17
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
Databases06 Jan 2022 | 5
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
Databases23 Dec 2021 | 55
Cerner, a company that scooped more than £100m in NHS deals in a year, is in Oracle's crosshairs
Updated Big Red targets health records specialist Cerner in $30bn takeover bid
Databases17 Dec 2021 | 8
Database company Cockroach Labs more than doubles in value to $5bn
'Cloud-native' outfit munches up $278m in new funding
Databases16 Dec 2021 | 3
Trouble getting REST APIs into GraphQL? Try our low-code approach, says Hasura
REST-to-GraphQL data hub also on offer and looking for more contributions
Databases15 Dec 2021 | 1
Oracle finance application customers more likely to leave for another vendor than SAP's – analyst
Forrester research sheds new light on dynamic Larry Ellison says is going in Big Red's favour
Databases14 Dec 2021 | 5
Ghost of Christmas past haunts Oracle despite impressive revenue growth
Payment over Mark Hurd dispute hits figures as Ellison bigs up cloud ERP
Databases10 Dec 2021 | 3
MongoDB logs 50% hike in Q4 sales, beats analysts forecasts for next quarter
Yet losses grow at NoSQL database biz
Databases07 Dec 2021 | 1
AWS DocumentDB not MongoDB-compatible, says MongoDB Inc
Interview MongoDB CTO Mark Porter: 'It is 34 per cent compatible, through our tests'
Databases06 Dec 2021 | 10
MySQL a 'pretty poor database' says departing Oracle engineer
Updated PostgreSQL a better option for open source RDBMS, he claims
Databases06 Dec 2021 | 156
The dark equation of harm versus good means blockchain’s had its day
Opinion Put crypto back in the crypt
Databases06 Dec 2021 | 170
UK and Ireland S/4HANA migrations accelerated during 2021 COVID-19 lockdowns, figures reveal
User group survey shows concerns linger about support skills for upgrade
Databases29 Nov 2021 | 2
RISE with AWS? Adidas migrates SAP S/4 HANA to the fluffy white stuff, snubs SAP's lift-and-shift programme
Updated Globo sports brand also interested in AWS analytics systems, data lakes and ML tools as part of upgrade
Databases22 Nov 2021 | 2
SAP's Embedded Steampunk little use to those on anything but the most recent system
Updated Effort to bring the ABAP programming language to S/4HANA cloud ERP system attracts criticism
Databases22 Nov 2021 | 3
Unit4 releases connector mesh as it sinks deeper into Microsoft's 'grizzly bear' hug
Vertical differentiation helps users see the wood from the trees
Databases17 Nov 2021 | 2
Sheffield Uni cooks up classic IT disaster in £30m student project: Shifting scope, leadership changes, sunk cost fallacy
And in the end, policy tweaks made most of it unnecessary
Databases16 Nov 2021 | 106
MongoDB 5.1 for DBaaS arrives amid questions over on-prem release stability
New features focused on times series and analytics fail to quell concerns over 5.0 bugs
Databases11 Nov 2021 |
System at the heart of scaled-back £30m Sheffield University project runs on end-of-life Oracle database
Extended support for 11.2.0.4.0 ended nearly a year ago
Databases11 Nov 2021 | 56
Techies tell BCS: More and richer data required if COP26 climate pledges are to be met
How can you get to net zero without knowing what's generating the nasties?
Databases10 Nov 2021 | 37
Microsoft's Dynamics portfolio has become an all-you-can-eat SI buffet for consultancies
Analysis Market for related services driving an M&A feeding frenzy
Databases09 Nov 2021 | 6
Looking for flexibility and scalability? You might want to sign up for a document database
But you might not want to go it alone
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RISE with SAP? Never heard of it, say 30% of UK users
While 11% plan to take up the package, lack of use cases keep numbers low
Databases04 Nov 2021 | 3
Sheffield University scales back student system after Oracle integration stumbles
£30m project uncertain amid cuts to academic departments
Databases03 Nov 2021 | 38
How about a big dollop of Azure with that database engine? Microsoft opens up SQL Server 2022 preview
Ignite The direction of travel is clear – cloudwards
Databases02 Nov 2021 | 2
Infosys awarded contract to replace East Sussex County Council's ageing ERP system
Indian service provider tasked with getting authority from SAP R/3 to Oracle Fusion
Databases02 Nov 2021 | 3
SQL Server on Linux: Canonical offers official support, AWS Babelfish helps users move to Postgres
Amazon tech requires fork of PostgreSQL, is not fully compatible with SQL Server
Databases02 Nov 2021 | 33
Yugabyte's latest funding round values the distributed SQL system at $1.3bn
Double-decker database raises $188m from hungry VCs
Databases29 Oct 2021 |
Oracle-owned ERP outfit NetSuite fitted with banking and data warehouse features to keep accountants sane
It's about helping steer the business without so many spreadsheets, says analyst
Databases19 Oct 2021 | 1
Northern Ireland Water ready to take the plunge with HR and finance software, prepares to flush Oracle R12.2
Utility biz has £28m to spend on replacement system
Databases19 Oct 2021 | 4
Spanner in the works: The goal is not 100% compatibility, Google says of PostgreSQL interface
Meanwhile, Yugabyte says PostgreSQL compatibility for its distributed database dates back to 2019
Databases15 Oct 2021 | 5
Soaring cloud division turns things around for SAP after annus horribilis that was 2020
Remember those car-crash results in Q3 a year ago? No repeat collision this time round
Databases13 Oct 2021 | 2
And finally... Oracle bags £25m ERP deal to replace East Sussex County Council's SAP R/3 system
Award delayed nine months due to pandemic
Databases13 Oct 2021 | 5
Brit MPs blast Baroness Dido Harding's performance as head of NHS Test and Trace
Programme lacked transparency at critical stage in pandemic, report says
Databases12 Oct 2021 | 150
England's Data Guardian warns of plans to grant police access to patient data
Proposed law could 'erode trust and confidence' in healthcare
Databases11 Oct 2021 | 43
Testing times: Microsoft gets PostgreSQL on Azure a day after GA
High end workloads with Hyperscale (Citus)
Databases04 Oct 2021 | 2
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
Databases01 Oct 2021 | 14
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?
Databases28 Sep 2021 | 125
Yugabyte's double-decker DBaaS follows Cochroach in distributed RDBMS
Hopes to lure users with promise of relieving operational burden
Databases24 Sep 2021 | 10
Yikes, tough crowd: Only 30% of German-speaking users are happy with SAP's cloud push
Updated Licensing, integration and security remain challenges, says DSAG survey
Databases20 Sep 2021 | 3
UK Cabinet Office calls off its search for a 'partner' in Whitehall SaaS ERP migration
'This is not the outcome you were hoping for,' bidders told
Databases16 Sep 2021 | 3
Vector database Pinecone promises to bring ML data management under control with 2.0 release
Hybrid disk and RAM system should slash costs, firm says
Databases15 Sep 2021 |
Cloud is fundamentally more profitable than on-prem, says Oracle's Safra Catz as revenue misses mark for investors
In case you were wondering why vendors are so excited about it
Databases14 Sep 2021 | 9
When ERP migrations go bad: Games Workshop says project issues are delaying refresh of 'dated' online store
Commissar Yarrick's bale eye focuses on company's web retail presence as 'long and complex' saga continues
Databases14 Sep 2021 | 16
Spending watchdog blames British Home Office for delays to £1bn crime-fighting IT system
Department says it's prepared to run ailing Police National Computer out of support if it has to
Databases13 Sep 2021 | 11
Tennessee agrees to pay Oracle $65m for Nashville location plan
There’s room for you and your cowboy boots, we’ll even get you a rhinestone suit
Databases09 Sep 2021 | 14
Google plays catch-up with JSON support for distributed RDBMS Spanner
Nice if you want to store extra attributes with changing relational schema, but not a threat to NoSQL specialists
Databases08 Sep 2021 | 2
Met Office signs 32 vendors to £30m framework to put the wind up data platform
Deloitte, Computacenter, KPMG, E&Y among listed suppliers hired by local weather watcher
Databases07 Sep 2021 | 12
Dobler effect: Spinnaker Support snaps up rival database consultant
Sets sights on third party support and managed services for Oracle, SAP and Microsoft
Databases06 Sep 2021 | 1
Big data means big money for the UK government as £2bn tender mooted
Central procurement team tickles the market with tantalising offer... but what for?
Databases03 Sep 2021 | 12
NHS England's release of 'details' on access to Palantir COVID-19 data store: Good enough? We're in a 'dialogue' says national data watchdog
Critics, meanwhile, voice incredulity over how little data has been shared
Databases31 Aug 2021 | 17
