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Percona says more than half of installs remain on version set to lose support in 2026 Users have six months to migrate from ...

What open source DB is shipped along with Ubuntu and so is on millions of computers today? If you guessed MySQL you lose. If you guessed CouchDB you are today’s lucky winner. Yes, thats right, CouchDB ...

Ever since Oracle got its anti-open source hands on MySQL via the Sun acquisition, many in the open source community have been hoping for a new champion to fill the perceived void that Oracle “selling ...

Open-source software has reshaped many IT disciplines, and the world of database administration (DBA) is no exception. The open-source community, and the software it has produced, has evolved into a ...

EnterpriseDB made its official debut in May with the release of its EnterpriseDB 2005 public beta release. Built on the open-source PostgreSQL database, the company is touting it as the world’s most ...

It's time to stop sniping at Oracle's handling of MySQL. Far from declining over the past few years, the open-source database has actually improved under Oracle's stewardship, according to Percona CEO ...

If you would like to set up a local GPT large language model for private and secure data analysis it might be worth your while learning more about DB-GPT an experimental open-source project that uses ...

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, ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Sun Microsystems has raised the possibility that it might offer customers its own database, a move that could trigger displeasure at Oracle but curry favor with open-source ...