Sometimes a good argument brings its own rewards. Such was the case with database management vendor Severalnines, who sent me a sharply-worded pitch about a database-as-commodity debate I started with ...

With MySQL 5.6, released Tuesday, Oracle has updated the open-source database to make it more competitive with NoSQL data stores such as MariaDB or Cassandra. “We’re in constant dialogue with our ...

In today’s digital economy, leading companies like Best Buy Canada, Nike, Staples, and Walmart are turning to NoSQL databases for better performance, availability, flexibility, and agility at lower ...

The structured limitations of relational databases don't support modern advancements as well as NoSQL databases. The simplicity of a NoSQL key-value store offers a flexible architecture to process ...

Ever since Linux became a viable server operating system, organizations have been looking to all kinds of open source software (OSS) to save on license and maintenance costs and to enjoy the benefits ...

Open source databases have steadily gained ground on proprietary systems, driven by the rise of Linux, cloud computing and NoSQL technologies. Open source databases and source-available alternatives ...