Data analytics software maker Snowflake said Monday it has agreed to buy Crunchy Data, a startup that offers cloud-based database software. Snowflake will pay about $250 million, according to a person ...

The actual definition of real-time database versus the abused interpretation used by marketers of real fast database systems. The interplay of transient and persistent memory, and hard and soft ...

What if you could free up 1% of your day? Would one small improvement make a difference in the life of your business? With Oracle Autonomous Database even the smallest tweaks in efficiency (powered by ...

Open-source software has reshaped many IT disciplines, and the world of database administration (DBA) is no exception. The open-source community, and the software it has produced, has evolved into a ...

Data analytics startup Databricks said Wednesday that it is buying Neon, a cloud-based database software vendor, for about $1 billion. It is the latest big deal for Databricks, which bought artificial ...

A new study reveals that fragmented HR and payroll systems are undermining data accuracy and efficiency, prompting a shift toward better-optimized and more unified options. In a business environment ...

Oracle ORCL has made its Database Software free for developers. Oracle is making it easier for developers to try its industry-leading database software. Oracle has been in the database industry for ...

Open source database software and services specialist Percona has detailed what is now a full platform-play for the organisation’s IT stack. Ready to promise big things (in terms of scope, scale and ...

The cloud rules databases, but on-premises persists, says Gartner Your email has been sent The database market keeps growing thanks to the cloud. But as Gartner analyst Merv Adrian has detailed, there ...

MIT professor Mike Stonebraker has been at the forefront of database technology for more than 50 years. The former Turing Award winner invented the Ingres and Postgres databases and helped launch a ...

The field of database administration is far from glamorous. Even within the uncompromisingly geeky domain of information technology, database administration would be among the last fields picked for a ...