PostgreSQL 8.4 goes into beta, ups performance
The PostgreSQL open source database project has released a beta of the upcoming version 8.4 release with a significant focus on performance improvements.
The PostgreSQL open source database project has released a beta of the upcoming version 8.4 release with a significant focus on performance improvements.
Oracle released 43 security fixes on Tuesday for a range of applications, including its flagship database, Oracle Application Server, E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise and WebLogic Server.
A team of researchers will release on Tuesday a paper showing that parallel SQL databases perform up to 6.5 times faster than Google Inc.'s MapReduce data-crunching technology.
IBM's proposal to acquire Sun Microsystems Inc. may be, for now, off the table.
If databases were judged like beauty pageants, the latest upgrade to FileMaker Pro would be crowned Miss Universe, contend executives at FileMaker.
Since 2005, Oracle has spent at least US$32 billion on acquisitions -- turning itself into the vendor of a top-to-bottom enterprise software stack that is arguably broader in scope than any rival suite.
In enterprise software, the closest thing to the dominance of Windows is the Oracle database.
Analytic data warehousing vendor Infobright is releasing an open-source data warehousing product under the GPL v2 license, and has gained Sun Microsystems as an investor through a US$10 million round of venture funding, the startup announced Monday.