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Article | 4/10/2011 MySQL hits new development milestone
Oracle is making the open-source MySQL database more stable and feature-rich through a shift in development philosophy, MySQL Vice President of Engine...
Article | 1/10/2011 Oracle rigs MySQL for NoSQL-like access
Speculation has been <a href="http://maxschireson.com/2011/09/29/oracle-does-nosql/">running rampant</a> that Oracle may introduce its own NoSQL datab...
Article | 1/10/2011 Percona curbs MySQL memory hunger
Percona has updated its version of MySQL so that the software's storage engine consumes less working memory, potentially increasing its suitability fo...
Article | 24/09/2011 Wall Street Beat: Software earnings look good
The spectacle of Hewlett-Packard replacing CEO Leo Apotheker, who had been in the job just a year, with former eBay chief Meg Whitman this week all bu...
Article | 22/09/2011 Teradata's Aster analytic database gets appliance treatment
Teradata is adding an appliance option for its Aster analytic database, giving it another potential weapon against rivals such as Oracle's Exadata, EM...
Article | 22/09/2011 EMC adds unstructured big data analytics to Greenplum platform
EMC's Greenplum subsidiary today announced a new capability to its Hadoop Data Computing Appliance (DCA) that allows users to mix and match unstructur...
Article | 22/09/2011 Oracle announces database appliance for SMBs
Oracle is hoping to capture the fancy of smaller companies enamored with its Exadata data-processing machine, announcing Wednesday the availability of...
Article | 17/09/2011 Oracle further commercializes MySQL database
Oracle has added additional commercial extensions to the enterprise edition of its open-source MySQL database, further differentiating it from the com...
Article | 16/09/2011 SAP's HANA is hot, but still in early days
The potential of SAP's HANA in-memory computing engine permeated the agenda and had attendees' tongues wagging this week at the Tech Ed conference in ...
Article | 14/09/2011 SAP rolls out new in-memory applications for HANA
The family of specialized applications for SAP's HANA (High-Performance Analytic Appliance) in-memory computing engine is growing, with a new applicat...
Article | 7/09/2011 Oracle adds new installer, failover to Windows MySQL
Oracle has updated the commercial edition of its MySQL database for Windows, adding a graphical installer and the ability to do failover clustering, t...
Article | 7/09/2011 NSA extends label-based security to big data stores
The National Security Agency has submitted new label-based data store software, called Accumulo, to the Apache Software Foundation, in hopes that othe...
Article | 29/08/2011 VMware launches cloud-packaged Postgres
Augmenting its line of software to support cloud deployments, VMware has created a package for running the Postgres database in a virtualized environm...
Article | 29/08/2011 Microsoft: TPC should also measure database availability
The Transaction Processing Performance Council should add an additional metric for availability to its set of database performance benchmarks, Microso...
Article | 26/08/2011 NoSQL offers users scalability, flexibility, speed
Users of NoSQL databases and data processing frameworks such as CouchDB and Hadoop are deploying these new technologies for their speed, scalability a...