The world of the database is one of those areas that sees lots of people obsessing over details that to outside observers would seem trivial. Graph, NoSQL, SQL, distributed—so many choices. So, when ...

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The DocumentDB project will establish a new open standard for NoSQL databases while continuing to build on PostgreSQL under permissive MIT license DocumentDB has joined the Linux Foundation as an open ...

Continuing its practice of sharing internally developed software, Facebook has released as open source RocksDB, the embedded data store the company developed to serve content to its 1.2 billion users.

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 ...

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DBeaver is a free, open-source, cross-platform SQL client and database administration tool. It is designed to support a wide variety of SQL and NoSQL databases, including MySQL and PostgreSQL. Its key ...

The traditional approach of providing data access to applications via remote database servers is not ideal for microservices. And while SQL provides standard access to relational databases, GraphQL ...

The roots of open source go back to the original pioneers of the computer revolution. Early pioneers of computing at organizations such as Bell Labs and MIT held a belief that sharing program code was ...