Such a move could trigger displeasure at Oracle but curry favor with open-source advocates. Image: A Sun database?

Enterprise data platforms increasingly unite analytics, governance and orchestration, with new generative and agentic ...

Datavzrd makes complex datasets interactive and easy to use. It works across scientific fields without programming knowledge.

Free and open-source software is making a splash in the world of databases. But is it reliable enough for your critical applications?

Qdrant targets AI researchers and developers with an open source vector search engine and database for unstructured data.

As Oracle, IBM and Microsoft ready the next competitive round, open-source alternatives start to make their mark.

Relational databases are giving way to open source based NoSQL DBs After nearly 30 years of ruling the roost, relational databases are having to share their turf with their non-relational cousins.

The three fastest growing databases of 2014 were all open source, according to a new report.

Open source databases often still are used in specialized niches. But they are important, even vital, niches for a growing number of corporations: Web portals, e-commerce applications, high-speed ...

Thanks to stalwarts like MySQL, MongoDB, and Cassandra, the database realm has been a haven for open source -- but the cloud is changing all that ...

Raising its stakes in open-source software, IBM plans to create an open-source project around Cloudscape, a specialized Java database, CNET News.com has learned.

An annotated roundup of open-source database packages and development tools.