Sales of databases on Windows remained strong, climbing 4 percent in 2003, due mainly to strong growth of Microsoft's SQL Server database. While Microsoft gained 11 percent in the Windows market ...

Open source databases are dominated by MySQL and PostgreSQL, while Oracle's database is the heavy hitter in the proprietary world, with Microsoft SQL and IBM'S DB2 weighing in as other significant ...

The rest, as they say, is history. SQL is now 50 years old. SQL was designed and then adopted around databases, and it has continued to grow and develop as a way to manage and interact with data.

To SQL or NoSQL? That’s the database question But as technological lines blur, there's not always a clear-cut answer.

Sales from Informix, which Big Blue bought last year, contributed $264.4 million and the computer giant's DB2 database software products gained momentum. IBM now has about a dozen database products, ...

Oracle executives said slower sales by OEMs and other companies that bundle Oracle's database software with their applications took a toll on database sales in the quarter. Oracle said some of its ...

In a nutshell, SQL is a standardized method used for collecting specific data out of a massive database. Did we lose you yet?

Oracle recovered ground in the worldwide relational database market last year to draw roughly level with IBM, thanks in part to Oracle's strong performance in the fast-growing Linux segment ...

Salesforce is somewhat vague about the underlying architecture of database.com, but it's fairly well known that, under the hood, the data is stored in one of a number of large Oracle RAC database ...

Oracle's autonomous database cloud revenues grew by more than 100 percent in Q2, the company said Thursday in its second quarter financial results.