Great Bridge, a start-up hoping its open-source database software will encroach on Oracle the way Red Hat has nibbled at Microsoft, is now open for business. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

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Database company Ingres is creating a package of its namesake open-source database and a version of Linux, a combination it hopes will appeal to hosted application providers. The goal of the bundle is ...

The ability for developers to rapidly iterate and innovate new database offerings based on open source allowed for the creation of literally dozens of new databases. Some of these—such as Cassandra, ...

Qdrant, the company behind the eponymous open source vector database, has raised $28 million in a Series A round of funding led by Spark Capital. Founded in 2021, Berlin-based Qdrant is seeking to ...

Pervasive will bundle up its own install procedures and various JDBC/ODBC drivers with the database itself, said Lance Obermeyer, director of products for Pervasive, Austin, Texas. Starting in ...

Canadian software company Userful has announced the open-source release of its PreBook PC reservation and usage management system. PreBook allows LAN PCs, including libraries, Internet cafes, and ...