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But Oracle has promised to make development of the Community Edition of the database more transparent and inclusive, and to roll in features previously limited to commercial versions of the database.
If the company can embrace influence rather than control, it has the opportunity to help define the open document standard, which will encourage even more growth in the category.
The service, currently available in two US regions, is expected to be expanded into 20 additional regions in the next 12-18 months.
‘Lingua franca of databases’ falls to its lowest ranking ever in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity.
A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.
Neon can spin up databases in milliseconds, making it ideal for building, and running, agentic AI.
Once the main go-to database for developers, MySQL has lost ground to Postgres and other specialized databases.
At its Cloud Next conference, Google is showing off a new AI engine for AlloyDB that enables developers to embed natural language questions in SQL queries.
The integration will provide developers and enterprises easier access to AI tools, better UI, support, and increased productivity, analysts say.
New filtering and observability functionality is similar to that of PostgreSQL, but Google has optimized it for performance.
Extended support for Oracle Database 19c will last until 2032, with caveats. Still no news of an on-prem edition of Oracle Database 23ai.
Standalone document-oriented database gives developers an open-source alternative to MongoDB now and perhaps an industry standard NoSQL API and engine later.
Oracle says its new Exadata database compute platform will run generative AI workloads faster for the same price as the old version.