Relational databases are the cornerstone of many applications today, but users may hit some significant performance limitations imposed by disk-based storage. The most effective mitigation strategy is ...

At its re:Invent developer conference in Las Vegas, Amazon today announced Aurora, a new relational database service the company built from the ground up. As Amazon’s Andy Jassy, the head of the ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS, showing the strength of the open-source database and its market maturity. CTO Werner Vogels said onstage at the AWS re:Invent conference ...

At the end of August, Microsoft released a preview of their Azure SQL database, a database rival to Amazon's Simple DB. But while Simple DB is non-relational and designed for fast querying, the Azure ...

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IBM, through the work of Edgar Codd, invented the ideas behind the relational database back in 1970. And even though IBM Research created the System R database in 1974 and had a few customers for this ...

Amazon Web Services said yesterday it has launched its Relational Database Service for Oracle in a move that accommodates licensing within the offering and a bring-your-own license arrangement. Amazon ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched AWS Aurora – a MySQL-compatible database engine for its relational database service, billed by analysts as a “database game-changer” – at its re:Invent 2014 user ...

Following an almost 2-year preview, AWS's time series database, Amazon Timestream, is now generally available. Timestream is a serverless, purpose-built database that exposes time series data through ...

Relational databases are the cornerstone of many applications today, but you may hit some significant performance limitations imposed by disk-based storage. The most effective mitigation strategy is ...