According to Oracle (ORCL), the company is the leading player in the relational database market, with a revenue share of 48.3%. Oracle also claims that it holds larger revenue share than its four ...

Colleagues at one of the world's largest SIs have been testing the Amazon Oracle Relational Database Service - aka RDS (and not to be confused with SAP Rapid Deployment Solutions also aka RDS.) The ...

The market is abuzz with terms like NoSQL, Big Data, NewSQL, Database Appliance, etc. Often, IT decision makers can get very confused with all the noise. They do not understand why they should ...

Oracle's strengths include high profitability and a competitive advantage as a pioneer in relational database technology, earning an A+ rating in Seeking Alpha’s quant factor system. Weaknesses lie in ...

Amazon Web Services said yesterday it has launched its Relational Database Service for Oracle in a move that accommodates licensing within the offering and a bring-your-own license arrangement. Amazon ...

Financial pressure on local authorities may render many unable to manage database software compliance and leave them open to heavy auditing costs and licensing fees. The latest research from software ...

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Software Development Laboratories, the precursor to Oracle, is founded in 1977 by Larry Ellison (right), Bob Miner (left) and Ed Oates. A more generic name for an IT company would have been hard to ...

In Silicon Valley and beyond, a new kind of database is rising. Dubbed "NoSQL" by its proponents, it sprang out of Google, Amazon, Facebook, and other web giants, who used it to run their massive ...