Sergei Golubchik, MariaDB's VP of architecture, also argues that Oracle ... open-source consulting company, said, "The coming together of the MariaDB Foundation to serve the worldwide user and ...

MariaDB Corp. is openly targeting database kingpin Oracle Corp., releasing a new version of its open-source database today with features that have previously been available only in expensive ...

Alone among the major open source database projects, Postgres aims to comply with the important standards such as ANSI/ISO SQL and to meet ... s .NET and ODBC, Oracle’s JDBC, OCI and Pro ...

Salesforce has been increasingly looking into PostgreSQL, an open source database, and hiring people who could provide some alternative to Oracle ... and Microsoft SQL Server are in its ...

The three fastest growing databases of 2014 were all open source, according to a new report from DB-Engines, a site that tracks popularity in the rapidly changing database marketplace. The lesson ...

It's not clear if Oracle will see any incentive to continuing development of an open source alternative to its core database offerings. There are several factors, however, that would make it ...

an open source database that provides an alternative to Oracle software. PostgreSQL -- or Postgres for short -- is a relational database much like the primary Oracle database or the open source MySQL.

But the spirit of open source software is that there’s always a way to improve, through a community of collaborators. Count Vish Abrams and his team at Oracle among that community.