Oracle has acquired open-source database vendor Sleepycat Software, strengthening its hand in the embedded database market and putting to rest at least one of the rumors about its plans to buy ...

The production release of Oracle Database Programming Interface for C (ODPI-C) is now available on GitHub (https://github.com/oracle/odpi). ODPI-C is an open source ...

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Enterprises are increasingly moving to open source database to cut their dependence on Oracle, Apache Cassandra has a strong community resistant to fracturing and business leaders are calling the tech ...

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, ...

Salesforce has been increasingly looking into PostgreSQL, an open source database, and hiring people who could provide some alternative to Oracle. The rationale is clear: Salesforce needs to diversify ...

Larry Ellison, co-founder and executive chairman of Oracle, speaks at Oracle OpenWorld 2017. (GeekWire Screenshot) Given an hour in front of thousands of his company’s most important customers Sunday ...