Database heavyweight Oracle has acquired Innobase Oy, a privately held Finnish company with close ties to open-source database company MySQL.

MariaDB Corp. is openly targeting database kingpin Oracle Corp., releasing a new version of its open-source database today with features that have previously been available only in expensive ...

Oracle's new Autonomous Database Cloud will be cheaper, faster and, with the addition of the Oracle Cyber Security System, safer than anything from Amazon Web Services (AWS). At least that's the ...

Oracle has acquired open-source database vendor Sleepycat Software, strengthening its hand in the embedded database market and putting to rest at least one of the rumors about its plans to buy ...

The production release of Oracle Database Programming Interface for C (ODPI-C) is now available on GitHub. ODPI-C is an open source library of C code that simplifies access to Oracle Database for ...

Oracle has spent billions consolidating its space, not just the big database software area but the application space.

Open-source software has reshaped many IT disciplines, and the world of database administration (DBA) is no exception. The open-source community, and the software it has produced, has evolved into a ...

Oracle integrated model context protocol (MCP) into its Database platform, bringing AI-based remote database interaction into network environments. According to an Oracle blog published this week ...

Services outfit SourceLabs stress tests the "SASH" open-source components on Oracle's application server.