Open source databases have steadily gained ground on proprietary systems, driven by the rise of Linux, cloud computing and NoSQL technologies. Open source databases and source-available alternatives ...

The world of the database is one of those areas that sees lots of people obsessing over details that to outside observers would seem trivial. Graph, NoSQL, SQL, distributed—so many choices. So, when ...

Many IT industry professionals use DB-Engines to track the popularity of database products. The ranking criteria includes measuring the number of references to different products on industry websites, ...

AMSTERDAM, Aug. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Open Source Summit Europe – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced that DocumentDB, a ...

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Aerospike, a Mountain View, Calif.-based company that created a NoSQL database that runs in-memory and supports flash, on Tuesday announced it has closed a $20 million Series C round of funding. New ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More A primary challenge for any database in the modern AI era is scalability.

Apache Cassandra’s highly scalable, distributed NoSQL database has a lot to offer the modern enterprise burdened by high-volume data. As its popularity and reliance has grown, its open core ...

Within a decade, open source databases were completely mainstream. Of the top five database platforms listed by DB-Engines as of 2018, three—MongoDB, MySQL and Postgres—were open source. However, in ...