Following Linux's footsteps, open-source databases are moving toward mainstream use and threatening proprietary software alternatives, a new survey says. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

MySQL and PostgreSQL are two of the most used open source SQL databases, and both fulfill the role of a general-purpose database well. How do you choose which one to use for a project? Let's look at ...

An open source database is just a regular database that’s distributed with its source code. Users can read, revise, and extend the software freely, although few use these opportunities. The most ...

Earlier, we discussed SQL Databases. In this post, I will list some popular open-source, free database software. Before starting any service online, it is necessary to choose a database that can ...

"It's really about choice," Rohan Kumar, Microsoft's General Manager, Database Systems, told me yesterday as he briefed me on the new offerings. Kumar further explained: "if you're a developer, you ...

Big companies are warming up to open-source database software, according to a new study. The open-source database MySQL grew rapidly in popularity over the last year, according to results from a ...

Sean McCown isn’t afraid of controversy. He assured me of that when I interviewed him last week in preparation for this column. So when the InfoWorld contributing editor referred to DBAs (database ...

The best open source databases Not so long ago, the world of open source databases could be summed up in one five-letter word: MySQL. But that was when we threw everything into a SQL database without ...

Qdrant, the company behind the eponymous open source vector database, has raised $28 million in a Series A round of funding led by Spark Capital. Founded in 2021, Berlin-based Qdrant is seeking to ...