Oracle has introduced new releases of Oracle Berkeley DB and Oracle Berkeley DB XML, two members of the Oracle Berkeley DB family of open source, embeddable databases. Oracle Berkeley DB is an ...

Rimma Nehme, product manager for Azure Cosmos DB, introduces a new feature for Microsoft’s cloud database at Build 2018. (Microsoft Photo) Microsoft’s Azure Cosmos DB database was probably the most ...

Databricks claims AI agents have quietly taken over enterprise database creation, pushing its Lakebase product to the center of agentic application development.

The Lakebase service has been in development since June 2025 and is based on technology Databricks gained via its acquisition ...

Mydbops announces its strategic focus on Database Reliability Engineering to help SaaS companies improve database ...

The modern sense of NoSQL, which dates from 2009, refers to databases that are not built on relational tables, unlike SQL databases. Often, NoSQL databases boast better design flexibility, horizontal ...

And Nehme is gung-ho, asserting that developers should use Cosmos DB for any new Azure-based application. That's a bold statement, especially for a former member of the SQL Server team who worked on ...

Distributed databases have become interesting and attractive in the last decade, as companies with world-wide operations require transactional databases with horizontal scalability and global reach.

Every decade seems to have its database. During the 1990s, the relational database became the principal data environment, its ease of use and tabular arrangement making it a natural for the growing ...