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Databricks puts cards on the table format as Snowflake looks for more players

Analysis Enterprises want a single data platform for data lakes and warehouse, but tech's not there yet, say analysts

Databases29 Jun 2023 | 2

Europe's largest city council runs parallel systems to cover Oracle rollout mess

Decision to adapt software now subject of an independent management investigation

Databases29 Jun 2023 | 43

Oracle certifies its database for Arm architecture on-prem and in cloud

Only for Ampere – but with a licencing twist that means Intel and AMD can't relax

Databases29 Jun 2023 | 5

Snowflake's finding NeMo to train custom AI models

Snowflake Summit Submerge an Nvidia LLM 20,000 leagues under the data lake

Databases27 Jun 2023 |

The rise and rise of the open-source RDBMS

How relational database providers like AWS offer its customers the freedom to innovate

Palantir's deals with NHS England top £60M – without competition

Latest £24.9M 'transition' contract an attempt to bridge gap to contract UK.gov is due to award in September

Databases20 Jun 2023 | 8

Oracle Cerner bleeds jobs as Veterans Affairs project stalls

Health acquisition freezes recruitment after $10 billion contract put on hold

Databases16 Jun 2023 | 13

CockroachDB hits Azure at last after five-year mission

Interview The database had to be architected from ground up, former GIMP dev Spencer Kimball tell us

Databases09 Jun 2023 | 2

Couchbase courts developers with platform integration

Analysts positive about time-saving move

Databases05 Jun 2023 |

UK.gov reboots ERP refresh with £934 million procurement

Second time lucky? But departments still lack funding to complete strategy, watchdog says

Databases01 Jun 2023 | 8

Exasol brings SaaS-flex to on-prem and public cloud systems

In-mem data warehouse unifies approach across environments, beefs up cost optimizer

Databases31 May 2023 |

Before you sprinkle AI on all your analytics, check data quality

Gartner asks for some fundamentals in a slew of AI-in-analytics announcements

Databases25 May 2023 | 4

Europe’s biggest city council faces £100M bill in Oracle ERP project disaster

Doubts over Birmingham’s decision to replace SAP in plan once hailed an exemplar win by Larry Ellison

Databases25 May 2023 | 74

SAP's cloud drive hits speed bumps with American users

ERP giant losing points on execution and flexibility

Databases23 May 2023 | 3

Consistent operating costs for databases

How Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized puts predictability into I/O pricing

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VA, Oracle's Cerner agree on renegotiated health records contract

Long, costly wars not the only thing US government good at getting stuck in

Databases17 May 2023 | 3

Qlik's got Talend as visualization vendors merge

Private equity investor Thoma Bravo's portfolio swells

Databases16 May 2023 | 2

MariaDB CEO: People who want things free also want to have very nice vacations

Former MySQL fork launches attack on hyperscaler database services with support for multiple front ends

Databases16 May 2023 | 44

Privacy Framework draft isn't 'future-proof', say MEPs

Take 3: the data must flow. Hold on, warns Euro Parliament, not so fast

Databases12 May 2023 | 8

VA's Cerner EHR platform fails to deliver medications to veterans

Messy system is forcing VA pharmacies to work overtime to deal with poor IT, committee told

Databases11 May 2023 | 4

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Bosses face losing 'key' workers after forcing a return to office

Survey says most would prefer a gentle request

Chinese balloon that US shot down was 'crammed' with American hardware

Blasted from the sky in February, device never transmitted photos, videos, or radar data it collected, officials say

Quirky QWERTY killed a password in Paris

On Call Quelle tragédie – techie had to visit the city of lights twice to sort this one out

It's 2023 and memory overwrite bugs are not just a thing, they're still number one

Cough, cough, use Rust. Plus: Eight more exploited bugs added to CISA's must-patch list

Europe's largest city council runs parallel systems to cover Oracle rollout mess

Decision to adapt software now subject of an independent management investigation

Google accused of ripping off advertisers with video ads no one saw. Now, the expert view

Analysis Web giant also hits back ... right as YouTube steps up war on advert blockers

Linux Mint cuts slice of 'Victoria' as 21.2 beta lands with dash of fresh Cinnamon

Desktop Ubuntu, but without the nonsense

Fujitsu admits it fluffed the fix for Japan’s flaky ID card scheme

Yet another snafu for digital services push

Mummy and Daddy Musk think Elon's cage fight against Zuck is a terrible idea

Bizarrely, there's been no suggestion that the bout won't happen

Huawei claims it’s ready to ship entire 5.5G networks – whatever they are – in 2024

Nobody else is using that nomenclature for planned updates to 5G

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If you don't brush and floss, you're gonna get an abscess – same with MySQL updates

Database hygiene matters, says Percona expert

Databases11 May 2023 | 4

MariaDB's Xpand offers PostgreSQL compatibility without the forking drama

Play designed to swat CockroachDB and tempt users over from hyperscaler DBaaS systems

Databases10 May 2023 | 3

EDB offers 'risk-free' migration to lure Oracle users to the PostgreSQL side

Long-suffering Big Red customers 'may finally be ready,' says analyst

Databases02 May 2023 | 8

SAP users not happy about German giant's price rises

Issues remain in the costs for development and quality assurance in the cloud

Databases02 May 2023 | 14

Trino and dbt open source data tools snuggle closer with integrated SaaS

Managed offerings now work in tandem to crunch data where it resides

Databases28 Apr 2023 |

Oracle's examplar win over SAP for Birmingham City Council is 3 years late

It also required £20 million in extra funds – and Larry wants to brag about this?

Databases26 Apr 2023 | 44

US Veterans Affairs Dept shoots down $10B Oracle Cerner dream

Despite Ellison's health world ambitions, Uncle Sam resets massive project over harm to patient health

Databases24 Apr 2023 | 1

It's a matter of when, not if, customers move to the cloud, SAP tells investors

That's news to some as analysts claim on-prem will be here for the foreseeable

Databases21 Apr 2023 | 12

Want to put more data in your database engine?

Learn how bulk Amazon S3 imports open the floodgates for Amazon DynamoDB

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MariaDB cuts jobs, repeats 'going concern' warning to stock market

New CFO sees interesting in-tray at 20 percent year-on-year growth database company

Databases18 Apr 2023 | 6

NHS England considered using Palantir tech to manage strike disruption

But then opted for spreadsheets instead

Databases17 Apr 2023 | 20

FerretDB 1.0 offers fresh approach to open source document databases

How to PostgreSQL MongoDB out of the equation

Databases14 Apr 2023 | 7

Users slam SAP's public cloud and S/4HANA migration strategy

German-speaking heartlands fear they'll be paying again for features they've already built

Databases05 Apr 2023 | 9

Teradata chases hyperscaler, SI partnerships in cloud push

CEO Interview We're not just your grandmother's data warehouse, CEO tells El Reg

Spotlight on Databases01 Mar 2023 | 2

UK consortium set to bid for £480 million NHS data platform

Syndicate wants to see health service 'stay in control' in face of fierce competition from Palantir

Databases28 Feb 2023 | 26

Power behind throne to depart as SAP enters a new era

Board chairman Hasso Plattner lines up successor to take ERP giant into uncharted territory

Databases28 Feb 2023 | 6

Deutsche Bank's takeover of Postbank hasn't gone well, according to customers

4 million contract migration went as planned, spokesperson insists

Databases21 Feb 2023 | 9

BAE Systems handed £38m Border Force intelligence contract

Cerberus data analytics system to give us a new reason to sweat at the landing gate

Databases16 Feb 2023 | 12

AWS dragged over lengthy downtime to migrate PostgreSQL DBaaS

Aurora needs a break to get users off 11.x, says cloud giant

Spotlight on Databases14 Feb 2023 |

While wider tech industry is hurting, analytics companies fatten up

Sumo Logic attracts private equity investor while InfluxData and Onehouse raise VC cash

Databases10 Feb 2023 | 3

UK health minister confirms data platform worth £480m will replicate Palantir dashboards

Suppliers competing for lucrative prize will rely on 'interoperability' of existing work from US spy-tech firm

Databases06 Feb 2023 | 23

Best time to prepare to leave an Oracle ULA? The day after it starts, say licensing gurus

Big Red 'will always start with a large number and negotiate down'

Databases01 Feb 2023 | 10

Poor Meta. Technical debt and user training made its exabyte-scale data migration tricky

Welcome to the real world, kids. And for the rest of us, a future at which Meta is gulp! – better at large-scale analytics

Databases27 Jan 2023 | 11

Oracle engineering exec quits after tryst with health division

Reports suggest Don Johnson left after 6 months in charge of strategic unit

Databases25 Jan 2023 | 4

Sorry seems to be tech execs' favorite word as DB player Aiven lays off 1 in 5

Finnish open source biz joins elite in correcting pandemic hiring frenzy

Databases23 Jan 2023 | 3

University still living in the Nineties seeks help with move to SAP S/4HANA

Tens of millions up for grabs as institution needs to dump legacy code

Databases17 Jan 2023 | 36

Quickest way to save with Oracle? Get off Unlimited Licensing Agreements, says pundit

They're not the meal deal they might seem to be, claims audit expert

Databases16 Jan 2023 | 21

Games Workshop once again battles scariest monster of all: ERP gone wrong

Worldwide expansion reliant on delayed Microsoft Dynamics project as Amazon deal beckons

Databases12 Jan 2023 | 50

That NHS England patient data platform procurement, FDP, is live. And worth up to £480m

References to Palantir use cases, 'unique tools' litter the tender docs as critics mull legal action

Databases11 Jan 2023 | 20

Palantir's Covid-era UK health contract extended without competition

US spy-tech firm's controversial work with patient data pushed out 6 months due to delayed data platform procurement

Databases04 Jan 2023 | 39

$20m SAP ECC replacement project delayed because UK university unsure what it wants

After 10 month’s deliberation, abandons current competition as ERP support deadline looms

Databases03 Jan 2023 | 12

Apache Iceberg promises to change the economics of cloud-based data analytics

Feature Adopted by Snowflake, Google and Cloudera, we look at why the Netflix-developed table format is important

Databases03 Jan 2023 | 6

MariaDB uses SPAC to begin NYSE trading in a tough market for public offerings

Analysis Tech IPOs down 85 percent on last year, research finds

Databases21 Dec 2022 | 8

When ERP projects go bad: Surrey County Council's £30m ditch SAP effort delayed again

Existing hold ups already cost millions as UK authority fails to put a price on latest setback

Databases19 Dec 2022 | 14

French JV wins contract to upgrade NHS Oracle finance system

After four years of talks, competition goes to incumbent supplier

Databases15 Dec 2022 | 1

Don't expect another SAP support deadline extension, user group warns

German software giant unlikely to repeat 2020's concession to users pressure

Databases13 Dec 2022 | 2

Cassandra 4.1 promises dev guardrails and pluggable storage

Apache project focused on stability following previous major upgrade

Databases09 Dec 2022 | 2

SAP still struggling to convert ECC customers to S/4HANA, says Gartner

Latest platform software has not been licensed by two-thirds of legacy users, despite strong growth

Databases06 Dec 2022 | 7

Rights groups threaten legal action over NHS data pilot based on Palantir tech

'Acute and justifiable fear' in the way patient data is set to be processed, campaigners warn

Databases06 Dec 2022 | 21

Microsoft adds silicon muscle into latest Azure SQL database configs

Intel's 'Ice Lake' and AMD's 'Milan' chips bump up speeds and feeds

Databases01 Dec 2022 |

SQL Server license prices rise ten percent as version 2022 debuts

Udpated Azure SQL pay-as-you-go rate is the only rate that won't change, and it was already expensive

Databases23 Nov 2022 | 26

UK's National Health Service will roll existing Palantir work into patient data platform

Does spy-tech supplier have a head start in bidding for the controversial deal it considers a 'must win'?

Databases21 Nov 2022 | 37

SAP renames developer platform and bundles it with S/4HANA

TechEd But users still need to wait years for business benefits of migration from older systems

Databases17 Nov 2022 |

MotherDuck scores $47.5m to prove scale-up databases are not quackers

Interview Former BigQuery tech lead tells Reg about data-warehouse-on-your-laptop DuckDB

Databases17 Nov 2022 | 6

SAP injects more low code into ERP platform for non-coding biz types

Following AppGyver and Ruum, Build potentially takes pressure off devs’ create-this-feature-now list

Databases15 Nov 2022 | 2

University staff voice 'urgent, profound concern' as Oracle finance system delays payments

Edinburgh Uni says it interrupted its financial processes in summer to test new system

Databases14 Nov 2022 | 39

SAP's vision underplays complexity of S/4HANA cloud migration, says Gartner

Difficult decision did not end with RISE with SAP, analyst tells The Reg

Databases10 Nov 2022 | 1

UK government set to extract hospital data to Palantir system without patient consent

'You'll be hearing from us,' say privacy campaigners who previously forced the government to back down

Databases04 Nov 2022 | 99

Redis swallows RESP.app biz that made its database easier on developers

Acquisition of Ukrainian startup to help broaden appeal beyond popular cache

Databases03 Nov 2022 |

University of Edinburgh staff paid late due to Oracle ERP troubles

Project beginning in 2019 has left employees and suppliers waiting on payments

Databases03 Nov 2022 | 36

Couchbase claims fourfold performance boost for DBaaS using a tenth of the memory

Improvements to storage engine follow DataStax update to API gateway

Databases01 Nov 2022 |

Db2 goes 'cloud-first' as IBM struggles to lift database dinosaur

One foot firmly in the mainframe for pre-loved system dating back to the 1970s

Databases27 Oct 2022 | 6

UK.gov finds billions in cash for big data contracts

Project two years in the making aims to improve public services... or what's left of them

Databases26 Oct 2022 | 20

SAP struggles to exit Russia after sale of support unit stalled

Datacenters, cloud services shut down but keep maintaining DBs for the nation's businesses

Databases25 Oct 2022 | 5

Vodafone to move SAP S/4HANA ERP system to Google Cloud

Spare a thought for the techies hauling on-prem mega-platform of one of world's biggest mobile companies to the fluffy stuff

Databases17 Oct 2022 | 18

US Veterans Affairs hits brakes on $10b Oracle Cerner health record system

Nothing like medical orders routed into /dev/null and other problems to hold up a roll out

Databases14 Oct 2022 | 10

SAP's German-speaking heartlands still struggling with ERP vendor's cloud vision

'Customers will not – at least not in the short term – move exclusively to cloud scenarios'

Databases14 Oct 2022 | 8

Microsoft attempts to eat Oracle's database lunch with Azure migration service

Ignite Redmond hopes move will lure more to its PostgreSQL managed service

Databases12 Oct 2022 | 5

UK hospitals fall back on pen and paper after Oracle Cerner outage

Staff couldn't access patient records and paper stocks were running low

Databases12 Oct 2022 | 11

Structured data, unstructured data: It shouldn't matter, says Google

GCN Apache Spark comes to BigQuery while BigLake gets Iceberg support

Databases11 Oct 2022 | 2

SAP users see scattered clouds on the horizon

User group's views are at odds with the software giant's direction

Databases11 Oct 2022 | 1

Fivetran slammed for dropping SQL support. CEO: 'Blame me for this'

Updated Ubiquitous database language support continued through third-party tool, users told

Databases07 Oct 2022 | 11

PostgreSQL 15 promises to ease Oracle and SQL Server migrations

MERGE means more code can be copied from earlier installation, because let's be real – that's how it's happening

Databases03 Oct 2022 | 12

Teradata CTO Stephen Brobst drowns data lakehouse concept

Interview Colorful data techie seeks to fend off rivals

Databases03 Oct 2022 | 6

Bank of England puts cloud analytics on todo list after seeing off market collapse

Data more essential than ever, says analytics chief as Liz Truss U-turns on tax, and world+dog remembers Bank's there to manage risk

Databases03 Oct 2022 | 24

Cockroach Labs CTO: Google became too comfortable, I wasn't being challenged

Interview Peter Mattis on starting a multibillion-dollar company as serverless database hits GA

Databases29 Sep 2022 | 4

SAS puts ML and analytics suite on Azure Marketplace

50-year-old software project provides a button the boss can click

Databases27 Sep 2022 |

Oracle pays $23 million to SEC to settle bribery charges

India, Turkey, UAE subsidiaries set up slush funds to bribe 'foreign officials' says watchdog

Databases27 Sep 2022 | 8

Oracle extends share options plans, no bumper payday for execs... yet

Not all investors happy that suits get more time to earn significant stock-option awards

Databases26 Sep 2022 | 4

Oracle verifies Java licensing tools from Flexera and Lime Software

While one vendor says they help prepare for audit, expert warns they don't defend compliance

Databases26 Sep 2022 | 4

Google previews streaming connector for BigQuery

All your data on one platform, opines the Chocolate Factory

Databases16 Sep 2022 | 2

NHS data platform procurement delayed for a second time

Questions remain over Palantir's influence after consultancy role for former NHS England director revealed

Databases15 Sep 2022 | 29

Want to know the future of FOSS? You can look it up in a database

Opinion If you make it here, you can make it anywhere

Databases12 Sep 2022 | 10

DuckDB, database wrangler used by Google, Facebook, and Airbnb, hits 0.5.0

System look well suited to fill gaps in traditional OLAP market

Databases09 Sep 2022 | 11

Microsoft offers SQL Server 2022 release candidate to Linux world

Redmond loves open source so much, it keeps most of its stuff closed

Databases08 Sep 2022 | 17

Open source databases: What are they and why do they matter?

Feature We trawled through the licensing terms and spoke to the vendors so you don't have to

Databases05 Sep 2022 | 47

Teradata takes on cloud-native rivals with data lakes, MLOps

Reworked use of object storage changes footing with competitors but will need to convince devs

Databases30 Aug 2022 |

Cloudera launches SaaS platform for the lakehouse crowd

And it IS a crowd – marketplace is busy, so it's hoping open approach sets it apart

Databases18 Aug 2022 | 1

Ant Group’s in-house DB set for global release, including Raspberry Pi edition

OceanBase 4.0 is derived from tech behind Alipay and is MySQL compatible

Databases16 Aug 2022 | 7

IBM launches Db2 operator for Kubenetes on AWS

Azure soon to follow as Big Blue accomodates a world with many clouds

Databases20 Jul 2022 | 2

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