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Open source databases emerged on the scene in the mid-to-late 1990s, following closely behind the release of Linux. Postgres had its roots in relational database research projects led by Michael ...

Fifty percent of enterprises are now using open source databases in a production environment, according to Forrester Research.This is a multi-digit jump from data available just a few years ago. And ...

Pervasive will bundle up its own install procedures and various JDBC/ODBC drivers with the database itself, said Lance Obermeyer, director of products for Pervasive, Austin, Texas. Starting in ...

Open source databases are likely to see the same rapid rate of adoption enjoyed by other open source applications. The advantages in terms of cost and operational flexibility make open source ...

Qdrant, the company behind the eponymous open source vector database, has raised $28 million in a Series A round of funding led by Spark Capital. Founded in 2021, Berlin-based Qdrant is seeking to ...

Databases were once the forgotten stepchild of the open-source family. Companies like Red Hat Inc. included database software with their Linux distribution disks, but the main focus was on the ...

Big companies are warming up to open-source database software, according to a new study. The open-source database MySQL grew rapidly in popularity over the last year, according to results from a ...

Our first response when hearing of the license change was that at least Elastic didn't invent yet another weird new license, and instead grabbed one off the shelf. Customer legal departments can rest ...