Like an aging fighter fending off younger foes, Oracle rose above its upstart NoSQL and open source challengers to be named DBMS of the Year for 2015. That coronation was bestowed by DB-Engines, a ...

Tesora is doing this with a Trove guest agent for Oracle Database 12c. Trove is OpenStack's DBaaS program. Trove's goal is to enable database administrators (DBAs) to quickly and easily provision ...

Major upgrade to the ever-evolving Oracle Database brings JavaScript support, graph optimizations, in-memory enhancements, and dramatic improvements to JSON operations and in-database machine learning ...

The continuing acceptance and growing usage of Linux as an enterprise computing platform has enlivened the open source community. The term "open source" refers to software that users are free to run, ...

Prior to 2008, whatever your database question, the answer was always,“Oracle”—or sometimes, “MySQL” or, “SQL Server.” The relational database management system (RDBMS) model—really a triumvirate of ...

Here is Gartner’s new Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems that ranks the top 20 cloud DBMS companies in the world—from AWS, Google and Microsoft to Databricks, Snowflake and Teradata.

From AWS, Google and Oracle to Databricks, IBM and Snowflake, here are the top 16 vendors leading the cloud database management systems market, according to Gartner’s new Magic Quadrant. Gartner’s Top ...

Is Red Hat switching from Oracle's MySQL to MariaDB for its default database management system (DBMS) in its next major operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)? Officially, Red Hat hasn't ...

<b style="color:#900;">Q&A</b> Analyst Donald Feinberg sees a "political agenda" behind the European Commission's decision to investigate Oracle's planned takeover of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I analyze corporate HR, talent management and leadership. Oracle hasn't been getting a lot of respect lately. The company missed ...