Proprietary database servers are almost twice as likely to have suffered a security breach in the last year compared to open source database servers, new research has revealed today.

Pivotal has released the source code for much of its GemFire distributed in-memory database.

To help spur that adoption further, GigaSpaces announced today it has made its core XAP 12 data grid offering available as an open source project. Data grids that run in memory are becoming more ...

Open source databases can save enterprises up to 60 percent over proprietary products, according to data collected by Forrester Research. Noel Yuhanna, a senior analyst at Forrester covering ...

As open-source database systems continue to mature, and as enterprises increasingly embrace hybrid data ecosystems, the DBA’s role will only become more strategic. Staying relevant in this open-source ...

Open source databases are attractive, but the gift of the source code can come with several catches, some explicit and some implicit.

An extensive survey shows the attitude of the market towards open source databases, drivers and inhibitors to adoption ...

The three fastest growing databases of 2014 were all open source, according to a new report.

The Linux Foundation announced general availability of Valkey 8.0, the open source in-memory database project forked from Redis earlier this year, after the eponymous company behind the in-memory ...

For decades we were hamstrung by the belief the database was a ‘solved’ problem, until open source developers opened our eyes Why would you ever write a new database? Particularly an in-memory ...