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There’s DevOps and there’s DevSecOps -- heck, come to think of it there’s even DevLoBDOps (Developer Line of Business Database Operations). Of all the DevOps subsets, Microsoft SQL Server tools ...

This is a guest blogpost by Neo4j’s CEO Emil Eifrem, in which he says graph databases are about to grow up Graph technology has come a long way: from financial fraud detection in the Panama and ...

Hitachi has aligned its data analytics divisions and and fused it with its Pentaho acquisition to call the new entity Hitachi Vantara. So... Vantara… kind of sounds like ‘advantage’ with a bit of ...

Databricks styles itself as an analytics software company with a ‘unified’ approach – the unification is this sense is supposed to suggest that the software can be applied across a variety of ...

IoT Back to Basics, chapter 4: IoT projects risk failure without careful consideration of data management processes and analytics. Their ultimate goal after all is to glean valuable information ...

In open source, we trust community - and as such, we might reasonably trust benchmarking studies that have been driven by community groups, in theory at least. ArangoDB open source NoSQL ...

It had to happen. DevOps consolidated the developer and operations functions into one ‘workplace culture’ and so came together the previously separately plated chicken & waffles of the software ...

YugaByte is a newly established company that sets out to deliver what it describes as turnkey distributed consistent and highly available database delivering data access with cache level ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog written by John Pocknell in his capacity as senior product manager at Quest. Pockell has been with Quest Software since 2000, ...

More and more developers are now writing SQL code as part of their roles – for example, research shows that 75% of developers now work in teams responsible for both the application and the ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog written by Ben Slater in his capacity as chief product officer at Instaclustr. Instaclustr positions itself as firm offering ...

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has graduated Apache Impala to become a Top-Level Project (TLP). Apache Impala itself is an analytic database for Apache Hadoop, the open source software ...

MongoDB 3.6 will be generally available in early December. The open source (at its core) general purpose database has some noteable changes (its makers would call them enhancements) including a ...

Oracle launched what it has described as the “world’s first autonomous database” at OpenWorld this week in San Francisco. CTO Thomas Kurian said, in the press conference following his keynote at ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network by Barry Devlin in his capacity as founder and principal of 9sight Consulting. A TechTarget contributor is his own right, Devlin is a ...

Systems management and security software company Quest Software has announced its Toad Edge product. This is a commercial database toolset for software application development teams and database ...

Embedded analytics firm Jinfonet Software has hit the 14.5 version release of its JReport product. Developer focused from the start, the message to programmers from the J-loving Marylanders behind ...

Data engineering departments and their corresponding software application development shops have got the message regarding the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by now, right? ...

Open source database company MariaDB Corporation has moved to iteration MariaDB TX 2.0. This now available version of the transactional database product has new server-specific MariaDB Server and ...

Oracle is open sourcing some (arguably) tasty container tools for software application development professionals and the operations staff that work with them. The database company has responded to ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Pascal Desmarets in his capacity as founder and CEO of Hackolade -- the company's software combines the 'comfort ...

Software needs to go to the bathroom and make sure it has a clean and open backend. This is the mandate and call to arms now being laid down by open source document-oriented data model database ...

MongoDB staged its 2017 user, developer, customer and partner showcase convention in the US city of Chicago this June. Essentially open source at the backbone, MongoDB is a database company built ...

SQL (Structured Query Language) is a standardised programming language used for managing relational databases and performing various operations on the data in them. So then, SQL databases – and the ...

WhereScape is a data warehouse automation firm. But what does that mean? WhereScape is the company name. Data (in its plural form) and datum (in singular) we will take as read. A data warehouse ...

MarkLogic has hit iteration version 9 of its eponymously named operational & transactional enterprise NoSQL database. What marks this product out is its data integration capabilities i.e. it ...

If you want 99.999 per cent system availability, uptime and performance, then you probably want 'several nines' in your database delivery stats gauge. In the quest for five nines and beyond then, ...

A new study from information management firm Veritas Technologies has suggested that 86 percent of organisations worldwide are concerned that a failure to adhere to the upcoming General Data ...

Yes yes okay we get it. Hybrid cloud is better than public cloud (with its openness and multi-tenant-ness) & better than private cloud alone (with its expandability that doesn't ever match the ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Yasmeen Ahmad in her role as practice partner for analytic business consulting at database and data services ...