New partnership pairs Percona migration expertise with HexaCluster tooling to move legacy and proprietary databases to open source more efficiently and deliver reduced licensing and support ...

The open source software movement is dedicated to ensuring unrestricted access to the source code of commonly used software, which lets individuals and organizations alter it to their needs. Databases ...

This article explores the choice between proprietary and third-party databases, weighing control, customization, and support against flexibility and innovation. The question of using a proprietary vs.

According to Eric Raymond, a widely respected American software developer and open source advocate, computer software—so often said to be eating the world—is an increasingly critical factor in the ...

Legacy proprietary databases are at last starting to succumb to open source alternatives, according to Gartner. Martin Banks reckons this could be true. For a wide range of thoroughly understandable ...

For those proprietary database vendors who have been hoping and praying that their myths about MySQL would persist ("For low-end applications, "Not high performance," etc.) , Kickfire just announced a ...

An important component of modern business is data. Data grows exponentially and becomes difficult and expensive to manage. Fortunately the advent of “the cloud” has mitigated this problem for ...