Google has created a relational database for its cloud-hosted App Engine application development and hosting platform, a much-requested addition, the company said on Thursday. For now, the database, ...

Google has filled a major hole in its platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering with the introduction of Google Cloud SQL, a relational database service for developers building applications in Java and ...

The addition of Google Cloud SQL gives developers access to a cloud-based database server, meaning they won't have handle all of the heavy lifting of relational databases. "You can now choose to power ...

In previous columns, we’ve noted that the SQL language is in the ascendant. New SQL native databases such as CockroachDB and Yugabyte are showing robust adoption, while non-relational (NoSQL) ...

Security is a longstanding priority for Microsoft across its products and offerings. In fact, SQL Server has pro­duced the fewest security vulnerabilities of all the major database platforms for many ...

Ever since NoSQL burst onto the mainstream database world in the late 1990s there have been a group of people who have been saying that NoSQL is going to kill off the relational database engine. This ...

Bellevue, Wa. – ITTIA has justreleased a new version of its lightweight DB-SQL database library,including a new query optimizer and enhancements to improve indexutilization and add support for ...

Microsoft has long offered a compact alternative to the mainstream editions of SQL Server, but the SQL Server Compact Edition appears to be losing steam. It's not particularly compact and has lost ...

In a bid to expand its charter beyond the transactional database realm, MariaDB Inc. is extending the capabilities of its open source relational database with online analytic processing (OLAP) ...

The road to SQL started with Dr. E.F. Codd’s paper, “A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks“, published in Communications of the ACM in June 1970. His colleagues at IBM, Donald ...