Users who eschew traditional relational databases in favor of the newly emerging NoSQL databases might be “throwing the baby out with the bath water,” warned a database pioneer before a roomful of ...

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Microsoft Corp. today is introducing updates across its database portfolio as part of general availability announcements for Azure DocumentDB and SQL Server 2025.

Over the last few weeks I've been talking to database companies from both sides of the SQL divide, and the more I've talked about how their databases are developing - and how their users are using ...

MariaDB, one of the most popular forks of MySQL, has announced the availability of version 10. This new release brings significant performance improvements in both speed and scalability compared to ...

For a while now I have covered the NoSQL database market and some of the great open source projects in that space. Today I am happy to report on the merger of two of the leaders in this market.

NoSQL companies unite! Membase (formerly NorthScale) and CouchOne have decided to merge to form Couchbase, which will provide a comprehensive family of NoSQL (which focuses on adding horizontal ...