CockroachDB tempts legacy databases to crawl into the cloud age
Distributed system makes a grab for Oracle, Db2 features
Databases29 Jan 2024 | 5
Databases
ServiceNow banks double digit sales gains amid push into enterprise workflow
Beats analyst estimates, talks up genAI and yet share price wobbles briefly
Databases25 Jan 2024 |
€2B SAP restructure program will affect 8,000 roles
Plans announced as profits fall and revenues rise
Databases24 Jan 2024 | 1
Oracle continues GenAI push into enterprise data
Don't leave us for LLM systems in other clouds, says Big Red
Databases23 Jan 2024 |
Asda's delayed SAP migration forces extension to Walmart's backend support contract
Three years after leveraged buyout, $240M ERP plan yet to bear fruit
Databases23 Jan 2024 | 19
SAP reshuffles leadership as cloud crusade continues
New moves follow year where customers complained it broke their trust
Databases10 Jan 2024 | 3
Expert sounds alarm bells over upcoming NHS data platform
Research warns not to make the same mistakes as other electronic patient record systems
Databases05 Jan 2024 | 18
Open source PostgreSQL named DBMS of the year by DB-Engines
Already more than 37 years old, the relational system continues to gain popularity
Databases03 Jan 2024 | 16
Google flaunts concurrency, optimization as cloud rivals overhaul platforms
Feature Details sub-CPU allotments, performant Iceberg tables after Microsoft, Databricks bring market noise
Databases03 Jan 2024 |
NHS England published heavily redacted Palantir contract as festivities began
Health org that previously promised it learned its lesson on transparency will ███, ███, and ███
Databases02 Jan 2024 | 95
Postgres pioneer Michael Stonebraker promises to upend the database once more
Interview Turing Award winner whose research and startups broke ground for five decades, tells The Reg he has more up his sleeve
Databases26 Dec 2023 | 73
HMRC launches £500M procurement for new ERP, though project's already a 'red' risk
Rivals will need to dislodge incumbent SAP in competition for 5-year deal across three departments
Databases19 Dec 2023 | 16
Oracle share price slides as it misses revenue expectations
Still, Ellison talks up cloud margins, says 100 datacenters don't cost more 'to run' than 10
Databases12 Dec 2023 | 14
Health crusaders prep legal challenge over NHS mega contract with Palantir
Updated Groups claim Federated Data Platform requires new legislation to go ahead
Databases01 Dec 2023 | 10
The AI everything show continues at AWS: Generate SQL from text, vector search, and more
re:Invent Invisible watermarks on AI-generated images? Sure. But major tools in the stack matter most
Databases30 Nov 2023 | 6
SAP faces more accusations of breaching on-prem customers' trust
Cloud-only innovation strategy slammed as users opt for on-prem and hosted support for S/4HANA
Databases30 Nov 2023 | 11
IBM's vintage Db2 database jumps on AWS's cloud bandwagon
Updated Users on the mainframe will have to wait for their system to become available in the cloud service, though
Databases29 Nov 2023 | 7
Couchbase takes fight to MongoDB with columnar side store upgrade
DBaaS update aimed at customers looking for live analytics on apps
Databases28 Nov 2023 |
Microsoft, Databricks double act tries to sew up the data platform market
Analysis But the one-stop shop vision fails to take it far beyond the competition
Databases27 Nov 2023 | 2
Palantir bags £330M NHS data bonanza despite privacy fears
Award follows £1 deal during pandemic and £60 million in non-competitive contracts
Databases22 Nov 2023 | 35
Microsoft touts mirroring over moving in data warehouse gambit
Ignite Fabric update cuts against the grain, and may have more to do with Databricks partnerships
Databases15 Nov 2023 |
Oracle off the hook for fraud but judge allows breach of contract claim to continue
Building material supplier left without functional ERP can amend claim
Databases08 Nov 2023 | 13
Pharma boffins sharpen hunt for target molecules using graph DB
French pharma firm Servier gets Neo4j to help find relationships in 'messy' data
Databases08 Nov 2023 | 1
SAP jumps on AI-assisted coding wagon, but uses its own ABAP language
The cloud-only move may leave out devs writing for on-prem systems, which still make up the majority
Databases07 Nov 2023 | 2
Splunk sheds 7% of workers amid Cisco's $28B embrace
Have another great quarter? Time to get rid of some staff, then
Databases01 Nov 2023 | 5
MariaDB Foundation CEO claims 'sanity' has returned to MariaDB plc
Exclusive Kaj Arnö mulls cash crisis, de-listing threat, job cuts, and strategy rewrite at MySQL fork vendor
Databases01 Nov 2023 | 21
Unit4 ditching on-prem in favor of SaaS come 2025
Exclusive Clients have a little over a year to get their affairs in order
Databases31 Oct 2023 | 13
Half a billion pound NHS data platform award still stuck in the pipes
Palantir users' endorsement letter could lay the ground for Palantir win
Databases20 Oct 2023 | 11
Analysts scratch heads over MariaDB's decision to ditch DBaaS crown jewels
'Their future is murky at the moment'
Databases19 Oct 2023 | 5
In-memory database Redis wants to dabble in disk
Aims to lower costs and broaden appeal of system popular with devs
Databases19 Oct 2023 | 10
TileDB secures $34M to reimagine databases, not just collect GitHub stars
System aims to clean mess of high-performance analytics cluttering the modern data stack
Databases17 Oct 2023 | 3
Birmingham set to miss deadline to make Oracle disaster 'safe and compliant'
Bankrupt council is like 'ship adrift' – lacks financial info in midst of equal pay nightmare
Databases16 Oct 2023 | 32
MariaDB ditches products and staff in restructure, bags $26.5M loan to cushion fall
Strategic DBaaS and distributed back end jettisoned after years of promotion
Databases13 Oct 2023 | 12
SAP barely moving needle to migrate users off ECC before support ends
Gartner finds only a third are somewhat prepared for S/4HANA transition
Databases11 Oct 2023 | 7
Microsoft extends life support for aging Apache Cassandra 3.11 database
But only if you're ready to cozy up in Azure's abode
Databases10 Oct 2023 |
SAP customers on brink of ERPocalypse as 2025 support cliff looms for ECC
When German vendor promised service until 2027, not everyone qualified
Databases10 Oct 2023 | 10
In rare bout of generosity, Oracle extends free support for Database 19c
Big Red says it wants to give customers time to upgrade to 23c, which only exists in the cloud for now
Databases06 Oct 2023 | 5
DuckDB shuns VC breadcrumbs so support isn't all it's quacked up to be
Company behind popular in-process OLAP system feels weight of success
Databases05 Oct 2023 | 1
City council Oracle megaproject got a code red – and they went live anyway
Poor security and segregation of duties also worry auditors
Databases04 Oct 2023 | 60
MongoDB promises to keep its hands off application building
Yet history tells us it's an ever present temptation to grab greater chunks of the stack
Databases03 Oct 2023 | 1
Lost your luggage? That's nothing – we just lost your whole flight!
Who, me? Tech's second day on the job nearly saw his high-flying career grounded
Databases02 Oct 2023 | 97
Contract for England's controversial health data platform delayed
NHS also launches £2M project to engage patients with data strategy
Databases29 Sep 2023 | 14
NTT will take those SAP licenses off your hands if it helps ease cloud migration
Bid to break impasse where boards only see costs
Databases28 Sep 2023 | 5
MongoDB's SQL-to-NoSQL converter uses AI to smash the language barrier
Tell it what you want to do, and it spits out the relevant code
Databases27 Sep 2023 | 7
Oracle's $130M-plus payday still looms on horizon for Larry and Safra
And shareholders – presumably not Ellison who still owns 42% – are still not happy about it
Databases26 Sep 2023 | 11
No customer left behind, SAP's Klein tells users angered by cloud-only decision
Data quality, system complexity and SAP’s future rely on cloud adoption, CEO relays to German-speaking user group
Databases25 Sep 2023 | 15
UK-US data deal could hinge on fate of legal challenges to EU arrangement
So much for sovereignty then
Databases22 Sep 2023 | 51
VCs lay $52.5M golden egg for MotherDuck's serverless analytics platform
Database service vendor based on open source DuckDB fattens up to $400M valuation
Databases21 Sep 2023 |
Venture capital firm makes 'unsolicited' bid for MariaDB buyout
Database company, which went through an IPO in December last year, was still in search of credit facility as of August
Databases19 Sep 2023 | 4
Tabular's Iceberg vision goes from Netflix and chill to database thrill
Promise of neutral data layer between vendors' vested interests attracts $26M
Databases19 Sep 2023 |
CERN swaps out databases to feed its petabyte-a-day habit
Run 3 reboot provoked challenges for Europe's particle-smashing project
Databases18 Sep 2023 | 4
Oracle at Europe's largest council didn't foresee bankruptcy
Auditors unable to sign off accounts partly due to lack of IT controls amid challenging ERP deployment
Databases18 Sep 2023 | 60
Databricks shakes VC money tree and $500M falls out
Who needs an IPO when you have Series I?
Databases14 Sep 2023 |
Oracle disappoints market with revenue miss as Ellison hints at Azure database move
Don't expect 'armies of programmers' to rewrite Cerner, says Larry, talking up low-code app dev platform APEX
Databases12 Sep 2023 | 13
Local governments aren't businesses – so why are they force-fed business software?
Opinion Oracle's repeated public sector failures prove a different approach is needed
Databases11 Sep 2023 | 101
SAP user group calls for support deadline reprieve amid hospital billing worries
Schedule is unrealistic... it takes 2 years just to tender, protests board member
Databases06 Sep 2023 | 13
Decades-old Home Office asylum system misses EOL deadline, no new timetable in place
Exclusive Replacement due more than a decade ago, Casework Information Database soldiers on as case backlog hits record highs
Databases06 Sep 2023 | 38
Largest local government body in Europe goes under amid Oracle disaster
Authority effectively bankrupt as ERP car crash adds to equal pay liability
Databases05 Sep 2023 | 238
Three years after setting off, Bus Open Data Service wants consultants to help it on its journey
UK tender hopes to boost beleaguered local bus services
Databases05 Sep 2023 | 12
Google wants to takes a byte out of Oracle workloads with PostgreSQL migration service
Third-party and bespoke apps most likely candidates for the switch
Databases30 Aug 2023 | 15
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