The database giant said Sleepycat’s open-source Berkeley DB database will complement Oracle’s existing line of closed-source databases for embedding within applications. The products differ from ...

Terms of the deal, which was announced Friday, were not disclosed. Innobase, a profitable company that was founded 10 years ago, makes a database “engine” called InnoDB for storing data to the MySQL ...

Telangana’s MeeSeva’s switch from Oracle to PostgreSQL illustrates potential cost savings and the challenges of migrating critical government systems to open source.

Salesforce has been increasingly looking into PostgreSQL, an open source database, and hiring people who could provide some alternative to Oracle. The rationale is clear: Salesforce needs to diversify ...