Today’s world is run on data, and the amount of it that is being produced, managed and used to power services is growing by the minute — to the tune of some 79 zettabytes this year, according to one ...

Cockroach Labs is also offering its enterprise features as open source and trusting enterprises will pay for what they use in production CockroachDB, an open source, fault-tolerant SQL database with ...

After nearly 30 years of ruling the roost, relational databases are having to share their turf with their non-relational cousins. The biggest and best of these “NoSQL” databases are open source. I had ...

Following Linux's footsteps, open-source databases are moving toward mainstream use and threatening proprietary software alternatives, a new survey says. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

For enterprises deploying AI applications with similar read-heavy workloads and unpredictable traffic spikes, OpenAI's ...

Highgo Database made a prominent appearance at GITEX GLOBAL 2025, showcasing its open-source product, the IvorySQL Open-Source Database. The team engaged with global tech enthusiasts and industry ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

When the Internet and World Wide Web finally went mainstream in the mid-1990s, new Unix-like operating systems running on PCs went mainstream too. Developers working on these systems had access to a ...

The developer behind the popular open-source PostgreSQL database software, the PostgreSQL Global Development Group, today announced the release of PostgreSQL 16 that includes enhancements to security, ...

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