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From October 13 to 17, 2025, one of the world’s most influential technology events—GITEX GLOBAL 2025—was held at the Dubai World Trade Center. Under the theme “AI Everywhere,” the exhibition brought ...

Earlier, we discussed SQL Databases. In this post, I will list some popular open-source, free database software. Before starting any service online, it is necessary to choose a database that can ...

Ever since Oracle got its anti-open source hands on MySQL via the Sun acquisition, many in the open source community have been hoping for a new champion to fill the perceived void that Oracle “selling ...

Timescale is looking to further advance its namesake open-source database platform with new AI capabilities announced today. Timescale was founded in 2017 as a time series database (TSDB) technology ...

What open source DB is shipped along with Ubuntu and so is on millions of computers today? If you guessed MySQL you lose. If you guessed CouchDB you are today’s lucky winner. Yes, thats right, CouchDB ...

If you would like to set up a local GPT large language model for private and secure data analysis it might be worth your while learning more about DB-GPT an experimental open-source project that uses ...

Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open source journey! Sign up here. ArangoDB, the commercial open source company behind the NoSQL graph database system of the same name, has raised $27.8 ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Data has been locked up behind proprietary licenses for the past 30 years, but that’s changing fast. Although Gartner analyst Merv Adrian correctly asserts that “92.1 percent of DBMS revenue comes ...

The three fastest growing databases of 2014 were all open source, according to a new report from DB-Engines, a site that tracks popularity in the rapidly changing database marketplace. The lesson, ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Sun Microsystems has raised the possibility that it might offer customers its own database, a move that could trigger displeasure at Oracle but curry favor with open-source ...