The latest managed database to emerge from Amazon Web Services is based around MongoDB, setting up a new confrontation between the cloud giant and the company behind that open-source project.… Read More
Amazon Web Services will attempt to set the cloud-computing agenda for 2019 this week over four days of keynote speeches and technical presentations that will showcase the breadth of the… Read More
One of the most fundamental aspects of computing infrastructure will play a key role in Microsoft’s Ignite 2018 pitch to developers and customers, with several new database features competing for… Read More
Salesforce upended the traditional market for customer-relationship management software led by Oracle and SAP more than a decade ago, and it hasn’t looked back. Now SAP thinks it’s time for… Read More
Microsoft’s Azure Cosmos DB database was probably the most important thing it announced last year at Build, its annual conference for developers. A year later, Azure Cosmos DB is on… Read More
Three years ago, database geeks were disappointed to learn that FoundationDB and its unique database product had been acquired by Apple. That all changed Thursday when Apple announced that the… Read More
Oracle has been the loudest of the legacy enterprise tech vendors when it comes to attacking the leader of the new guard over the past few years, and Amazon Web… Read More
Shares of fast-growing cloud database provider MongoDB closed well above the initial asking price of $24, finishing the day at $32.07 after the company successfully raised $192 million in an… Read More
Say what you want about Oracle executive chairman and chief technology officer Larry Ellison, but he hasn’t lost his passion for taking shots at Amazon Web Services. Ellison used Oracle’s… Read More
Microsoft plans to strengthen its database pitch to cloud customers Wednesday at Microsoft Build by unveiling Azure Cosmos DB, a new database built with latency and throughput in mind and… Read More
Microsoft says it’s building artificial intelligence capabilities directly into SQL Server 2017, aiming to simplify and speed up machine-learning processes that would normally take place outside the database. The company says the… Read More
Google Cloud Platform today released three database services from beta, signaling that they’re ready for production use. Cloud SQL, Cloud Bigtable and Cloud Datastore are all now in general release,… Read More
IBM today announced the general availability of Graph, a service for the Bluemix cloud offering that the company said helps set up a relatively new, high-performing type of database. Graph databases… Read More
Amazon’s Relational Database Service (RDS) has officially opened to all users after three years of only being available to chosen Amazon Web Services customers. The service allows users to host… Read More
In a surprise show of support for a popular open-source technology, Microsoft says it will offer Hadoop-based distributions for Windows Server and its Windows Azure cloud computing platform — aiming… Read More
Another day, another investment by Ignition Partners. The Bellevue venture capital firm today announced that it has led a $14 million investment in Couchbase, a Mountain View, California-based NoSQL database… Read More