Amazon Web Services said yesterday it has launched its Relational Database Service for Oracle in a move that accommodates licensing within the offering and a bring-your-own license arrangement. Amazon ...

Software Development Laboratories, the precursor to Oracle, is founded in 1977 by Larry Ellison (right), Bob Miner (left) and Ed Oates. A more generic name for an IT company would have been hard to ...

A comment by frequent contributor JesperFrimann last week caused me to take a closer look at licensing practices among major commercial database vendors other than Microsoft. All three of the big guys ...

The market is abuzz with terms like NoSQL, Big Data, NewSQL, Database Appliance, etc. Often, IT decision makers can get very confused with all the noise. They do not understand why they should ...

It’s rare in the world of software to see a single architecture dominate as comprehensively as the relational database model. The relational database (RDBMS)—actually a hybrid of Codd’s relational ...

Six Big Business Intelligence Mistakes Ever since Oracle gained control over the MySQL relational database by acquiring Sun Microsystems, doubts have been raised about the company’s level of ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Oct. 20 — Splice Machine today announced the release of version 1.5 of its Hadoop RDBMS, adding multiple enterprise-ready features that enable businesses to confidently replace ...

Who is first in relational databases today? There has been some trading of places (and some slicing and dicing of market definitions) but, with Informix, CA-Ingres and Sybase less visibly vibrant, IBM ...

In another sign that the NoSQL and the relational database worlds will end up playing well together, Ebay spoke last week revealing details of its data warehouse, which it says has one of the largest ...

A Series of Forbes Insights Profiles of Thought Leaders Changing the Business Landscape: Monte Zweben, CEO, Splice Machine... Splice Machine, which positions itself as the provider of the only Hadoop ...