Retrieving 100,000 records took 10 seconds, compared to 3 seconds for the commercial version. MySQL is one of the most popular open source databases. It was owned by Sun, and is now owned by ...

Approximately half of commercial RDBMS users are expected ... almost half of DB-Engine’s ten most popular databases are open source: MySQL, MongoDB, Postgres, Cassandra, and Redis.

Pervasive Software said it will offer commercial support and services for the open-source database PostgreSQL, the latest attempt to shake up the multibillion-dollar database industry. Adopting a ...

Open-source database company MySQL continues to add capabilities common to commercial database software as it tries to shake up the multibillion-dollar market. MySQL on Monday introduced an early ...

But that’s paid database adoption ... usage is far higher for commercial open source than numbers show.” This is true, but an understatement. In today’s world, filled with open source ...

Open-source database management tools can be ... Firebird provides many of the features available in commercial databases, including stored procedures, triggers, hot backups (backups while the ...

Acceptance of the commercial open-source model is more evident than ever. The database is, and will always be, a critical component of the application stack, OGrady said. And as LinuxWorld shows ...

Missouri State University’s information systems department and Web start-up Savvica Inc. don’t have a lot in common apart from tight budgets. In recent years, that would have likely meant ...

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The company releases a developer version of MySQL 5.0, which can create and run stored procedures, a feature common to commercial databases. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech ...