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EnterpriseDB: Federal Agencies Turn to PostgreSQL to Cut Costs 07/24/2013

EnterpriseDB announced that U.S. government agencies are moving to Postgres to cut costs as federal budgets tighten.

Oracle's Multitenant Database 12c Released 07/01/2013

The 'c' may stand for cloud, but DBAs will find plenty of improvements for down-to-earth enterprise workloads.

Couchbase 2.1 Improves Open Source NoSQL Database Health 06/28/2013

Open Source database scales up and set a course forward for an lightweight embeddable database.

IBM DB2's BLU Acceleration Paves Way for Big Data Analytics 06/26/2013

New in-memory and compression tech from IBM Labs speeds analytics workloads and aims to help businesses get the most from their database investments.

Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2014 Preview 06/25/2013

SQL Server 2014 preview hits Microsoft's download servers. Highlights include an in-memory boost and cloud-enabled workload mobility options.

Oracle Database 12c Gears Up for the Cloud 06/21/2013

Big partnerships set to underpin next big database release from Oracle.

Oracle Advances Open Source MySQL Clustering 06/18/2013

The Oracle MySQL Cluster solution adds high-availability and scalability to the open source MySQL database.

PostgreSQL Maven Tom Lane Heads to Salesforce 05/24/2013

The cloud CRM upstart brings a top contributor into the fold as it embarks on a transition to open source.

Oracle Releases Open Source MySQL 5.6 with NoSQL Features 02/05/2013

New database release provides performance and scalability gains

Couchbase 2.0 Advances Open Source NoSQL Database 12/12/2012

It's not just about CouchDB and memcached anymore as new release goes beyond legacy roots.

Project Hekaton: Microsoft Bakes In-Memory Tech into SQL Server 11/09/2012

Microsoft is venturing deeper into in-memory database technology and challenging SAP and Oracle.

VMware Gemfire 7 Scales In-Memory Data Grid 10/31/2012

VMware adds native JSON and improved scale to Gemfire

Open Source Project Red Dwarf Brings Database as a Service to the OpenStack Cloud 10/16/2012

Joint HP Rackspace venture is pushing forward at OpenStack in effort to enable a new world cloud database services.

Oracle Pushes both MySQL 5.6 and Oracle Database 12c Forward 10/02/2012

Big week for Oracle as databases open and closed inch toward release.