Database developer Supabase Inc. has raised $200 million in funding from a group of prominent investors at a $2 billion valuation. Fortune reported the investment today. The round included the ...

But will it set a real standard for MongoDB alternatives? Analysis When Microsoft rolled out an open source extension stack for PostgreSQL to handle document-style data, it wasn't just taking aim at ...

IT execs responding to two recent surveys cited "strong security" as one of the top reasons they're adopting open-source cloud databases—the lack of which was once considered an impediment to adoption ...

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 ...

MariaDB plc, a company that commercializes the open-source relational database of the same name, has received takeover interest from K1 Investment Management. The software maker disclosed the ...

These open source databases implemented subsets of the features in the big relational databases, but they were rarely unique feature sets. However, when the biggest revolution in database technology ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...

It’s hard to compete with easy. PostgreSQL has a lot of great qualities, but being easy to use seals the deal for companies and consultants. Even as NoSQL databases keep booming, the relational party ...

A tale of dueling open-source projects for object-relational mapping may be brewing within Eclipse, with similar proposals floated by Versant Corp. and Oracle Corp. Versant plans to announce on ...

Microsoft packed SQL Server 2016 with new advanced features that are supposed to help it compete with a host of other database software. But some of the advanced capabilities in the relational ...