Database software

With the volumes of digital data used by businesses growing at exponential rates, having the right information management and database software becomes key to corporate decision-making. While established products such as Oracle, DB2 and Informix remain widely used, open source alternatives such as MySQL and Ingres offer potential alternatives for IT managers. We examine the issues around choosing the right products and strategies for your organisation.

News 21 Apr 2021
Anti-food-waste app Karma taps up Google Cloud to power global expansion plans

Swedish startup Karma is on a mission to help consumers and businesses across the globe fight food waste, and it has enlisted the Google Cloud Platform to help it achieve its goal Continue Reading
News 04 Aug 2020
Nordic enterprises look for SAP price reductions as they navigate Covid-19

Businesses in the Nordics are using SAP Cloud Platform to address Covid-19 challenges and are also seeking price reductions Continue Reading

Feature 01 Mar 2022

Retailers get business-critical IT and data management in order

Decathlon and Toolstation are among the retailers investing in new technology to support business-critical applications and better data management Continue Reading
Feature 24 Feb 2022

Christal Bemont, Talend CEO: Show up as yourself

Christal Bemont, CEO of data management firm Talend, reflects on coming through difficult times in solidarity with co-workers, and how data quality assumes a heightened significance in the digital era Continue Reading
News 20 Feb 2022

BreastScreen Victoria to use third-party support for Oracle database

Australia’s BreastScreen Victoria has inked a support contract with Rimini Street to free up IT capacity and funds for strategic initiatives Continue Reading
Blog Post 11 Feb 2022

Vast Commvault coop on commodiously capacious code containment

Vast Data is a data storage company with a message for data scientists, data-centric developers, DBAs in developer-operations DevOps teams and anyone other software engineers with a penchant for ... Continue Reading
News 09 Feb 2022

How Carrefour is lowering its Oracle footprint

Migrating core business applications requires a multi-pronged approach, so what remains on-prem, and where does SaaS fit? Continue Reading
Podcast 09 Feb 2022

Log4Shell, Ukraine and umbrella firm cyber attacks – Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

Alex Scroxton joins the team to discuss the Log4j vulnerability and Russian pressure on Ukraine. Also discussed are cyber attacks on umbrella companies, neuro-diversity and junk in space Continue Reading
Feature 02 Feb 2022

Finland brings cryostats and other cool things to quantum computing

Not only is Finland the clear leader in refrigeration technology for quantum computers, but it also leads in fundamental research into the underlying quantum information theory Continue Reading
News 01 Feb 2022

Dutch software engineers join campaign for research funding

Software researchers from all over Europe are sounding the alarm: to maintain a strong international competitive position, more financial resources must be committed to software research Continue Reading
News 26 Jan 2022

Space junk revealed by University of Texas graph database

Aerospace engineers, led by space environmentalist Moriba Jah, at The University of Texas at Austin have built a graph database, AstriaGraph, to track space junk that is a threat to life on Earth Continue Reading
News 26 Jan 2022

TigerGraph roars into APAC

The graph database technology supplier is approaching the region with a solution-based strategy and partnering with universities to grow local capabilities Continue Reading
Blog Post 21 Jan 2022

Alibaba Cloud’s growing clout in databases

Alibaba Cloud growing clout in cloud-based databases was validated this week when it reported that its database revenues grew by over 50% year-over-year. The company’s database product portfolio ... Continue Reading
Opinion 22 Dec 2021

A trial relying on computer evidence should start with a trial of the computer evidence

Learning from the Post Office Horizon scandal - the most widespread miscarriage of justice in recent British legal history Continue Reading
Blog Post 14 Dec 2021

immudb (immutable database) ‘tamper-proof’ database

The open source immudb (immutable database, get it?) tamper-proof database can now serve as the main transactional database for enterprisesm due to its recent bolstering in terms of full ... Continue Reading
Blog Post 13 Dec 2021

Having trouble overcoming the S/4HANA confidence gap?

As John Lennon and Yoko Ono didn't quite sing, "Give POC a chance!" If you’re one of the many SAP users who’s yet to migrate to S/4HANA, we understand your hesitation. It’s potentially a big ... Continue Reading
News 02 Dec 2021

Pandora Papers: How journalists mined terabytes of offshore data to expose the world’s elites

Six hundred journalists spent over a year mining 2.94 terabytes of data that revealed offshore companies and the politicians, world leaders and celebrities who secretly owned them Continue Reading
News 30 Nov 2021

How Maxim’s Group is using Oracle Cloud

The Hong Kong-based F&B operator is using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to run its VMware workloads and datawarehouse to improve resilience and productivity Continue Reading
News 15 Nov 2021

Government bodies refuse FOI requests on basis of misleading database search times, says academic

The Information Commissioner’s Office tells tribunal it would need to bring in external experts to search data using an Excel spreadsheet Continue Reading
News 11 Nov 2021

Financial Conduct Authority chooses Aiimi for improved information discovery

The Financial Conduct Authority has awarded a three-year contract to UK enterprise search firm Aiimi to enable the regulator’s staff to find documents more easily and collaborate better Continue Reading
News 09 Nov 2021

Oracle eyes startups with Singapore cloud region

Oracle is targeting startups and going beyond its enterprise stronghold with its first cloud region in Southeast Asia Continue Reading
Opinion 08 Nov 2021

Watching me, watching you – challenging the rise of digital surveillance at work

Unprecedented levels of digital monitoring at work is embedding a culture of surveillance, despite workers’ opposition to the practices, says Prospect Union Continue Reading
News 28 Oct 2021

Illegal state surveillance in Africa ‘carried out with impunity’

Analysis of surveillance laws and practices in six African countries finds that existing privacy laws are failing to protect citizens from illegal digital surveillance, which is being facilitated and enabled by global tech companies Continue Reading
News 07 Oct 2021

How data drives Air Canada’s cargo business

Data-driven insights and artificial intelligence are helping Air Canada to find a new business path as it expands its cargo business following the pandemic Continue Reading
Blog Post 15 Sep 2021

Push it does Diffusion 6.7, real good

Push Technology develops real-time data streaming and messaging software. The company has now tabled a new personalised client data delivery capability in the company’s Diffusion Intelligent ... Continue Reading
News 15 Sep 2021

Australia and Singapore have higher incidences of insecure databases

Five-year longitudinal study by Imperva shows the proportion of databases with at least one known vulnerability in Australia and Singapore are among the world’s highest Continue Reading
Blog Post 02 Sep 2021

Data modernisation & denormalisation: 3T integrates with Hackolade

It’s always tough when vendors start their company name with a number… primarily because no sentence starts particularly well with a numerical value. But it worked for 3M, so let's move on to 3T ... Continue Reading
News 10 Aug 2021

Researchers uncover database with 126 million unsecured records

Business-to-business marketing firm OneMoreLead was storing tens of millions of records in an unsecured database, exposing at least 63 million people to fraud, identify theft and phishing campaigns Continue Reading
Blog Post 09 Aug 2021

The ephemeral stack - Nutanix: solidifying DBaaS & the science of compliance

The Computer Weekly Developer Network continues with its series focused on the ‘composable ephemeral computing stack’ with a guest post written by Rob Tribe in his capacity as VP of system ... Continue Reading
News 06 Aug 2021

Apple unveils plans to scan US iPhones for child sex abuse images

Apple will introduce child sexual abuse material detection for US users later this year, but some experts are worried that the technology could be repurposed to scan phones for other kinds of content Continue Reading
Blog Post 24 Jul 2021

The composable stack - InterSystems: The software consumption pendulum

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Scott Gnau in his capacity as VP of data platforms at InterSystems - a company known for its software systems and ... Continue Reading
News 21 Jul 2021

SAP Q2 2021: revenue down 1%, 600 new S/4 Hana signups

SAP has reported second-quarter 2021 revenue of €6.669bn, down 1% on the same year-ago quarter. Cloud revenue has increased by 11% to €2.276bn, just over one-third of the total, and 250 customers claimed for new Rise with SAP package in the quarter Continue Reading
Blog Post 06 Jul 2021

The ephemeral stack - DataStax: Compose yourself with serverless data.

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Patrick McFadin, in his role as vice president for developer relations at DataStax. McFadin’s original title for this piece ... Continue Reading
Feature 30 Jun 2021

Lakehouse concept aims to merge data lake and data warehouse

Data lakes are big, amorphous and difficult to access, while data warehouses are costly and aimed at structured data. The data lakehouse aims at analytics in an age of unstructured data Continue Reading
Blog Post 23 Jun 2021

How do you solve a problem like ‘bad database days’ MariaDB?

MariaDB Community Server 10.6 has arrived. But, to be honest, version 10.6 doesn’t sound like more than a ‘point release’ not worth worrying too much about, right? The company insists otherwise and ... Continue Reading
News 23 Jun 2021

DataStax eyes growth in APAC

DataStax opens regional headquarters in Singapore to tap the growth opportunities in Asia-Pacific where more organisations are modernising legacy systems and building cloud-native apps Continue Reading
Blog Post 15 Jun 2021

Et nubes ad astra: DataStax Astra Streaming

Clouds talk, it’s a fact. More specifically, individual application components, services and data commodities need to exchange information with each other in order to form the DNA of live ... Continue Reading
Blog Post 10 Jun 2021

Nutanix adds HPE sauce to hybrid multi-cloud combos

As we know, Hewlett Packard became HP… and then, once the earth cooled, HP became HP Inc and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). While HP Inc continued to sell ink (pun intended) inside its printer ... Continue Reading
Blog Post 04 Jun 2021

Computational Storage - VAST Data: Practical truths for pragmatic file systems

In a number of follow-up pieces to the Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) series focusing on Computational Storage, CWDN continues the thread with some extended analysis in this space. The ... Continue Reading
Blog Post 31 May 2021

Computational storage: NGD Systems / SNIA - Icebergs at the Edge

Software runs on data and data is often regarded as the new oil. So it makes sense to put data as close to where it is being processed as possible, in order to reduce latency for performance-hungry ... Continue Reading
News 27 May 2021

BCS demands reform to rules on computer evidence following Post Office Horizon scandal revelations

Professional IT body wants changes to how computer evidence is used in court in the wake of the Post Office case Continue Reading
Blog Post 27 May 2021

Computational storage: Pure Storage - Segment, sandbox, stream & shape for storage supremacy

Software runs on data and data is often regarded as the new oil. So it makes sense to put data as close to where it is being processed as possible, in order to reduce latency for performance-hungry ... Continue Reading
Blog Post 24 May 2021

Computational storage series: Evaluator Group - Speculations, expectations & extrapolations

Software runs on data and data is often regarded as the new oil. So it makes sense to put data as close to where it is being processed as possible, in order to reduce latency for performance-hungry ... Continue Reading
Feature 11 May 2021

Computational storage: What is it? Why now, what for, who from?

Computational storage is an emerging architecture category, in which compute is put near storage to address I/O bottlenecks resulting from large volumes of data Continue Reading
Blog Post 10 May 2021

Computational storage: A Computer Weekly analysis series

Software runs on data and data is often regarded as the new oil. So it makes sense to put data as close to where it is being processed as possible, in order to reduce latency for performance-hungry ... Continue Reading
Blog Post 10 May 2021

Percona open source barometer: licences, prices & pandemic crisis

Open source database company Percona has said that the pandemic has accelerated database workloads moving to the cloud, but - with this movement - companies are also finding that costs rise… and, ... Continue Reading
Blog Post 05 May 2021

K8ssandra now runs on ‘any’ Kubernetes

K8ssandra, an open-source distribution of the Apache Cassandra database on Kubernetes, is now available on any Kubernetes environment. When we say ‘any’, we mean any. It is available on any ... Continue Reading
News 27 Apr 2021

Papa John’s embarks on ‘multi-phase’ move to Google Cloud

Papa John’s International has set out plans to shutter its datacentres and revamp its customer experience to include a move towards real-time tracking data for its deliveries Continue Reading
News 21 Apr 2021

Anti-food-waste app Karma taps up Google Cloud to power global expansion plans

Swedish startup Karma is on a mission to help consumers and businesses across the globe fight food waste, and it has enlisted the Google Cloud Platform to help it achieve its goal Continue Reading
News 16 Apr 2021

SAP users identify data skills shortage as importance of analytics spikes

Research from the SAP UK & Ireland User Group has demonstrated a data skills dearth among users and a delay in using the SAP Hana in-memory database until full S/4 Hana ERP implementations Continue Reading
News 16 Apr 2021

Teradata eyes cloud opportunity in APAC

The data warehouse software supplier has been positioning itself to capture the region’s cloud opportunities through not only R&D, but also efforts to support enterprises in their cloud journey Continue Reading
Feature 12 Apr 2021

How the Covid-19 Genomics UK Consortium sequenced Sars-Cov-2

Consortium of universities and other institutions has harnessed datasets, analytics and cloud computing to sequence Sars-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, in a blisteringly short time Continue Reading
30 Mar 2021

Data lake storage: Cloud vs on-premise data lakes

The data lake is a fundamental concept of data management. But what type of storage do you need to build a data lake on and what are the pros and cons of on-premise vs the cloud? Continue Reading
Feature 30 Mar 2021

Data warehouse storage: Has cloud made on-premise obsolete?

There once was no alternative to building a data warehouse on-premise, but with cloud providers targeting analytics, building data warehouses on-site is looking obsolete Continue Reading
News 24 Mar 2021

Covid-torn supply chains speed cloud adoption, says Oracle’s Miranda

Second wave of pandemic has seen some Oracle customers speed up adoption and others attend to some enterprise software housekeeping Continue Reading
Feature 23 Mar 2021

Anti-money laundering technology must operate in a collaborative ecosystem

With new technologies making it easier for banks to spot money laundering activity, we look at why the problem persists at scale, finding that ecosystems and collaborative processes need to be built Continue Reading
News 23 Mar 2021

Home Office completes transfer of all business apps to Oracle Cloud

Home Office has completed its deployment of Oracle’s Cloud Applications suite to all its functions across 35,000 staff, ahead of other government departments Continue Reading
Opinion 11 Mar 2021

Why the London Data Charter could be a foundation stone in the city’s recovery

London First’s director of connectivity and competitiveness, David Lutton, explains why data is at the core of the capital’s recovery plan Continue Reading
News 11 Mar 2021

Oracle Q3, 2020-21: Revenue growth of 3% backdrop to Ellison attack on SAP

Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison launches competitive attack on SAP as Oracle’s third-quarter results show revenue growth of 3% Continue Reading
Feature 02 Mar 2021

Covid-19 and the art and science of data visualisation

The pandemic has seen political leaders and civil servants using data visualisation like never before – but there is more to the art than meets the eye Continue Reading
News 26 Feb 2021

Palantir once more in sights of civil libertarians over NHS Covid data store

The award of a new government contract to data analytics supplier Palantir on the back of its participation in the NHS Covid-19 data store has provoked Open Democracy into legal action, backed up by an exposure of lobbying activity that pre-dates the pandemic Continue Reading
News 23 Feb 2021

How GeoSpock is supercharging geospatial analytics

Company’s GeoSpock DB is aimed at optimising queries of large volumes of geospatial data with scale and speed Continue Reading
Feature 18 Feb 2021

Data lake storage: Cloud vs on-premise data lakes

The data lake is a fundamental concept of data management. But what type of storage do you need to build a data lake on and what are the pros and cons of on-premise vs the cloud? Continue Reading
Opinion 16 Feb 2021

Why Brexit will make software licence transfers and database copyright harder for UK firms

Brexit will make it more difficult for UK companies to sell unused software licences and to enforce their database rights in Europe. Firms will face a legislative disadvantage over AI-generated databases Continue Reading
News 09 Feb 2021

Oracle claims major win in Australian public sector

Australian Data Centres will deploy Oracle’s Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer to host cloud services for the federal government Continue Reading
Blog Post 05 Feb 2021

From Metallica to Malbec to MDM, masterly magnificence matters

Anyone can be a novice, an amateur or a beginner - the clue is pretty much in the name, right? Then there’s that second tier of accomplishment… let’s call that intermediary, normal (if you’re ... Continue Reading
News 28 Jan 2021

SAP launches ‘Rise’ business transformation as a service

SAP CEO Christian Klein announces business transformation as a service package, dubbed Rise Continue Reading
Blog Post 22 Jan 2021

Programming in the pandemic - Percona: Clouds gather around the DevOps fallout factor

The Computer Weekly Developer Network examines the impact of Covid-19 on the software application development community. With only a proportion of developers classified as key workers (where their ... Continue Reading
Blog Post 13 Jan 2021

Data masking from 3T has MongoDB security automation covered

If you want Post-It Notes, go to 3M. If you want independent MongoDB software tools with incremental security and management layers, go to 3T. That’s the message from the Berlin-based softwarehaus, ... Continue Reading
News 13 Jan 2021

South Central Ambulance Service drives out of Covid data fog with Qlik

Ambulance service’s business intelligence has come into its own during the coronavirus crisis, helping the managers behind the paramedics to deliver the service with fast data flows and joined-up datasets Continue Reading
Blog Post 12 Jan 2021

Diving into Open Data Lakes Analytics

Let’s take a quick dip into Open Data Lakes Analytics. But before we do, we need to cross off some names and definitions. This story starts with Ahana, a self-styled ‘self-service’ analytics ... Continue Reading
Blog Post 11 Jan 2021

Oracle: shift back to red on MySQL Analytics Engine

Take a deep breath… Oracle’s eponymously named Oracle MySQL Database Service with integrated MySQL Analytics Engine is a mouthful. Why did the company use such extended language to name one of its ... Continue Reading
Blog Post 08 Jan 2021

Relish with Redis: NoSQL is mustard for microservices

As everybody knows, there’s no hot dogs, pretzels or pork roast without mustard. Microservices, it has been suggested, also need a solid relish (and a bun backbone), without which they fail to be ... Continue Reading
News 07 Jan 2021

Robust member administration system indispensable for Dutch Coeliac Society

Organisation had to find a dedicated member administration system to support existing members, new members and countless volunteers Continue Reading
Blog Post 05 Jan 2021

Why the 2020s will be dominated by graph technology

This is a guest blogpost by Emil Eifrem, CEO, Neo4j. In his view, four major trends driving interest in graph technology are starting to surface. Let's look ahead to what could be in store for the ... Continue Reading
Blog Post 14 Dec 2020

Exasol: data supply chains, green data & data-developer destinies

If not quite a future predictions analysis (we've all had far too many of those by now anyway) market intelligence lead at Exasol Helena Schwenk has spoken to the Computer Weekly Developer Network ... Continue Reading
News 11 Dec 2020

Disputed PostgreSQL bug exploited in cryptomining botnet

PGMiner cryptomining botnet remained unnoticed by exploiting a disputed CVE in PostgreSQL Continue Reading
Blog Post 07 Dec 2020

The new Nikkei: Dawex launches Japan Data Exchange (JDEX)

Data is, just in case you hadn’t heard, the new lifeblood of business. It is the new oil, the new commodity, the new key ‘good’ and it is (of course) the lifeblood that drives the applications we ... Continue Reading
Blog Post 03 Dec 2020

TIBCO4Good project expansion drives ‘data skills’

Nobody needs to be reminded that 2020 taught us to be kinder, nicer and more caring to people. Many companies have decided to take the chance this year to explain just what they stand for over and ... Continue Reading
News 26 Nov 2020

Robots taking jobs, but creating careers

Robotic process automation developers tell Computer Weekly about the job they never expected to be doing Continue Reading
Blog Post 26 Nov 2020

The DBA time machine & the future of data

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Rob Tribe, VP of systems engineering for EMEA region at Nutanix. Tribe contends that today, none of us can attend a ... Continue Reading
News 19 Nov 2020

Data silos and IT complexity stifle business potential

A study from 451 Research highlights the problems organisations face in managing data Continue Reading
News 19 Nov 2020

Why databases are key to Alibaba’s Singles’ Day sales

With each order split into multiple database transactions, ensuring the scalability and elasticity of database systems was key to the success of Alibaba’s Singles’ Day sales Continue Reading
Feature 10 Nov 2020

Intel Optane Persistent Memory aims to fill the gap DRAM can’t

We look at Optane and its PMem product that Intel believes will fill a big gap between memory and storage that DRAM technology just cannot deal with Continue Reading
News 01 Nov 2020

How Snowflake is charting its growth in APAC

The cloud data warehouse supplier set foot in Asia-Pacific just three years ago and has started to gain traction among large enterprises in Singapore, India and Southeast Asia Continue Reading
Blog Post 29 Oct 2020

From onerous to harmonious: MongoDB Atlas plays simultaneous multi-cloud tunes

Keen to stress its multi-tool abilities, MongoDB these days calls itself a modern ‘general purpose’ database platform company. The firm is stressing its general (i.e. width and breadth) ... Continue Reading
Blog Post 21 Oct 2020

Percona points to deeper DBaaS amidst cloud billing white noise

Open source database software and services company Percona is not your usual tech firm. It’s annual developer, DBA, data architect convention is a relaxed affair with a no-frills (but rich in ... Continue Reading
Blog Post 14 Oct 2020

Oracle Cloud: One-click instrumentation & observability is now a thing

Oracle is all about data, obviously. But the Oracle of this decade (and recent history) is more specifically all about data and information observability, autonomous control, analytics, diagnostics ... Continue Reading
Blog Post 13 Oct 2020

What to expect from Couchbase Connect 2020

The Computer Weekly Open Source insider team is fond of cloud-native open source distributed shared-nothing architecture multi-model NoSQL document-oriented database software... … but only if it’s ... Continue Reading
News 12 Oct 2020

Software AG caught in double extortion ransomware hit

Data stolen from prominent German software company by Clop ransomware gang appears on the dark web Continue Reading
Opinion 08 Oct 2020

Excel is the hammer for too many businesses’ nails

Excel is a fine piece of software, but as Public Health England found out, its ubiquity and ease of use does not make it the ideal tool for every job that involves data Continue Reading
Blog Post 06 Oct 2020

Nutanix: have faith in the cloud-agnostic multi-DBaaS creed

Nutanix is the cloud software company with a pedigree in hyperconverged infrastructure solutions that wants to ‘make computing invisible anywhere’ - as the t-shirt slogans might read. The company ... Continue Reading
News 29 Sep 2020

Oracle OpenWorld 2020: Miranda – business model changes are driving turn to cloud

Steve Miranda, who leads Oracle applications development globally, spoke to Computer Weekly ahead of his keynote at the virtual version of OpenWorld. Supply chain management and customer experience are vectors where improvements are being made, he said Continue Reading
News 15 Sep 2020

Risky development practice leaves company access keys exposed

Database stores, cloud storage and myriad other services are being put at risk by the accidental exposure of company access keys during development Continue Reading
E-Zine 15 Sep 2020

How data has helped in the fight against coronavirus

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we talk to the Office for National Statistics about the important role data plays in the battle against Covid-19. We also look at the speedy deployment of the Scottish contact-tracing app and report on a discussion about the UK government’s delayed response to its digital identity consultation. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
Blog Post 10 Sep 2020

DataStax points finger at Storage-Attached Indexing

Most IT vendors have product launches, software distributions, beta-stage releases, general availability stages or perhaps release candidates. Cloud-native NoSQL Apache Cassandra data platform ... Continue Reading
Blog Post 25 Aug 2020

Tableau sets the table for neater data preparation

Applications run on data, obviously. But how much time do we think about the way applications get the data fed into them and how well that process is being performed. Data quality, data ingestion ... Continue Reading
News 25 Aug 2020

MongoDB grows Asian footprint through Alibaba Cloud

MongoDB teams up with Alibaba Cloud to expand its presence in Asia-Pacific as it prepares to release a serverless variant of the open-source database Continue Reading
News 18 Aug 2020

Oracle takes aim at hyperscalers, eyes VMware workloads

Oracle claims it is addressing the limitations of competing services by offering better security controls, consolidated billing and global availability Continue Reading
Blog Post 14 Aug 2020

Couchbase serves up 6.6 with developer agility & tranquility

Couchbase is that company we know because its name start with Couch, which in this context is used as an acronym for Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware. We also know Couchbase as the creator ... Continue Reading
Blog Post 11 Aug 2020

Google Cloud hooks up dev tools in Looker

Enterprise organisations used to tell us that they had an ‘IT stack’. This term was meant to express the existence of a software estate sat on a variety of hardware resources with a selection of ... Continue Reading
News 04 Aug 2020

Google links with eight US banks for current accounts

Tech giant works with banks to layer digital services on top of secure and regulated banking infrastructures Continue Reading