Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Oracle said on Tuesday that it acquired open-source database company Sleepycat Software for an undisclosed sum. The database giant said Sleepycat's open-source Berkeley DB database will complement ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Database heavyweight Oracle has acquired Innobase Oy, a privately held Finnish company with close ties to open-source database company MySQL. Terms of the deal, which was announced Friday, were not ...

Increasing the accessibility of big data analytics within enterprises, Oracle today announced enhanced support for the R statistical programming language. Further demonstrating Oracle's commitment to ...

It's always fighting talk when a vendor makes an announcement foretelling the end of a technology approach. Is open source HAWQ really going to kill the traditional database? Pivotal is an interesting ...