Although heavily dependent on Oracle today, Salesforce seems to be seeking database freedom—and its efforts could result in the same freedom for all enterprises Despite being filled with Oracle ...

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PostgreSQL arguably has been somewhat overlooked by database commentators. PostgreSQL doesn’t have the mas­sive marketing machine of Oracle or Microsoft, and it lacks the “new kid on the block” appeal ...

For nearly 30 years, PostgreSQL (a.k.a., Postgres) has arguably been the most common SQL open source database that you have never heard of. Call it the Zelig of databases, its technology either sat ...

Google today announced the launch of AlloyDB, a new fully managed PostgreSQL-compatible database service that the company claims to be twice as fast for transactional workloads as AWS’s comparable ...