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

But will it set a real standard for MongoDB alternatives? Analysis When Microsoft rolled out an open source extension stack for PostgreSQL to handle document-style data, it wasn't just taking aim at ...

IT execs responding to two recent surveys cited "strong security" as one of the top reasons they're adopting open-source cloud databases—the lack of which was once considered an impediment to adoption ...

PostgreSQL is a big deal. The most common SQL open source database that you have never heard of, as ZDNet's own Tony Baer called it. Besides being the framework on which a number of commercial ...

Snowflake Inc. has acquired Datometry Inc., a startup that developed software for porting workloads between databases. The ...

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 ...

Microsoft snapped up another open source startup this week — Citus Data, which specializes in big data and analytics. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Citus Data was founded in 2010 by Umur ...

These open source databases implemented subsets of the features in the big relational databases, but they were rarely unique feature sets. However, when the biggest revolution in database technology ...

There's an open-source alternative for NotebookLM that can be deployed to your local LAN and can work with locally-installed AI for better privacy.

Start-up company EnterpriseDB Corp. announced the general availability of its open-source database software Tuesday, hoping to make its mark in what has quickly become a competitive field of ...

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 ...