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 ...

Marten Mickos may no longer run MySQL, but his ghost still haunts the database market. Years ago, Mickos declared, “The relational database market is a $9 billion a year market. I want to shrink it to ...

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 ...

OpenSSL is why you see that little padlock next to a web address in your browser. It's one of the core implementations behind ...

Microsoft Corp. today is introducing updates across its database portfolio as part of general availability announcements for Azure DocumentDB and SQL Server 2025.

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Open-source software has reshaped many IT disciplines, and the world of database administration (DBA) is no exception. The open-source community, and the software it has produced, has evolved into a ...

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 ...

The developer behind the popular open-source PostgreSQL database software, the PostgreSQL Global Development Group, today announced the release of PostgreSQL 16 that includes enhancements to security, ...

Big companies are warming up to open-source database software, according to a new study. The open-source database MySQL grew rapidly in popularity over the last year, according to results from a ...

Databases were once the forgotten stepchild of the open-source family. Companies like Red Hat Inc. included database software with their Linux distribution disks, but the main focus was on the ...