During the dot-com bubble in the 1990s, one common software stack for web applications was LAMP, which originally stood for Linux (OS), Apache (web server), MySQL (relational database), and PHP ...

Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) first introduced its relational database (the one that can be visualized in tables of rows and columns) in the late 1970s. While the Oracle database served user needs for decades, ...

When Oracle first released the JSON document flavor of its autonomous database 18 months ago, we popped the question: When will they get around to adding support for the MongoDB API? This week, Oracle ...

When a $40 billion database industry giant takes enough interest in a technology to build its own application programming interface for it, that’s an indication the technology has legitimate appeal.

It's hard to build a database that wins customers from Oracle. But it looks to me to be much harder to reward investors who back such upstarts. That's my conclusion after interviewing the CEO of ...

This month MySQL turns 30. Once the bedrock of web development, MySQL remains immensely popular. But as MySQL enters its fourth decade, it ironically has sown the seeds of its own decline, especially ...

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Craigslist handles a boatload of postings every day, but as big as that load is, their daily incoming traffic is not enough to sink a relational vessel. However, managing their archive of postings was ...