Sean Michael Kerner

The open source PostgreSQL 9.2 database is being officially released today, providing database administrators with new levels of scalability and performance. “This year for the first time thanks to HP, EnterpriseDB and the University of California at Berkeley, we’ve been able to test PostgreSQL on bigger machines,” Josh Berkus, PostgreSQL core team member, told Database […]

NoSQL database startup Couchbase is planning on big things for 2012. The company has a new database release in the works, while still respecting its Apache CouchDB roots. Couchbase was formed in February of 2011 as a merger between CouchOne and Membase. Over the past year, the company has evolved and moved beyond being just […]

In recent years, the drumbeat of vendors proclaiming the ascendancy of NoSQL has become increasingly loud. One of the NoSQL vendors that is seeing business results from its NoSQL solution is 10gen, which is the lead commercial sponsor behind the open source MongoDB NoSQL database. “We’re seeing the NoSQL space really taking off now and […]

NoSQL type databases have become increasingly popular over the last several years as a way to deliver better scalability and performance. There are a number of different types of NoSQL databases, including a graph database structure, which is what open source startup Neo Technology is all about. Neo Technology is the lead commercial sponsor behind […]

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is continuing its move toward engineered systems that integrate hardware and software with a new Oracle Database appliance. The Oracle Database appliance is a “little brother” to Oracle’s Exadata database box. The new appliance is a clustered two server system that includes up to 24 Intel processor cores and can have as […]

The PostgreSQL 9.1 open source database is now generally available, offering users a long list of new features. The new PostgreSQL release follows a six month beta process, following the initial beta release in May. PostrgreSQL 9.1 is noteworthy for a number of features, among them are some that no other database yet implements. “The […]

For over a decade, the open source MySQL database has been a critical component of the LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) stack. Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is now moving to make MySQL more attractive for Microsoft Windows users in an effort that might help it to take share from rival SQL Server. Oracle this week announced a new installer […]

VMware (NYSE: VMW) is taking aim at the database market with its new vFabric Data Director technology. The new technology will provide database-as-a-service capabilities by way of vFabric Postgres, which is a VMware-supported version of the open source PostgreSQL database. The vFabric technology effort began in 2010 as an approach to help enable applications for […]

Managing the open source PostgreSQL database has often been the domain of command line tools and scripts. That’s now about to change thanks to the release of Postgres Enterprise Manger from commercial PostgreSQL firm, EnterpriseDB. EnterpriseDB is also taking PostgreSQL beyond the confines of traditional data center deployments with a new Postgres Plus Cloud Server […]

The open source NoSQL Apache CouchDB database is set to get a major performance boost thanks to commercial services vendor Couchbase. Couchbase this week announced multiple performance contributions to CouchDB that will first appear in the Couchbase Single Server 2.0 distribution of CouchDB. Among the enhancements are disk write and indexing performance gains that offer […]

The open source PostgreSQL database is gearing up for a major new release. PostgreSQL 9.1 is now available in beta, introducing a number of new features. Among the new features is support for synchronous replication for the database. “The basic idea is that you have one or more asynchronous replicas that are set up using […]

Scaling the MySQL database for high-availability and clustering is an activity that can take many forms. This week, memcached vendor Schooner debuted its new Active Cluster for MySQL. Schooner first came into the market with a hardware-based solution for memcached — an open source distributed system for caching content. Schooner has now moved to a […]