AWS doubles down on innovations that redefine the database management experience Advertorial Unveiling Amazon Aurora zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift and much more Advertorial
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 |
Unrelenting storage growth drives release of Amazon DocumentDB Elastic Clusters New Amazon DocumentDB feature promises higher storage capacity and support for applications at massive scale Sponsored Feature
Apple sued for promising privacy, failing at it What's allowed for Cupertino is verboten for everyone else
So you want to replace workers with AI? Watch out for retraining fees, they're a killer Comment Who said workforce development was just for humans?
Gee, tanks: Russian hackers DDoS Germany for aiding Ukraine in brief Also: a week of leaks; Riot Games says 'LoL' to source code ransom demands; and Yandex source also appears online
China stops recognizing online study, orders kids back to foreign unis Asia In Brief PLUS: NTT’s haptics advance; Australia cracks down on influencers; Korean Uni websites hit by Chinese protestors; and more
After less than half a year, Intel quietly kills RISC-V dev environment Did Pathfinder get lost in Intel's sea of red ink? Or is Chipzilla becoming RISC averse?
Japan, Netherlands reportedly join US in China tech export ban But the first rule of Chip Fight Club must be observed. Meanwhile Beijing may have its own shadow bans
Shag pile PC earned techies a carpeting from HR Who, Me? Thankfully a veep with a sense of humor pulled the rug out
Oh, 07734! Internet Archive debuts vintage calculator emulator MAME adapted to bring your favorite TI and HP graphing machines back to life
FOSS could be an unintended victim of EU crusade to make software more secure Opinion Don't throw the open source baby out with the bathwater
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
Meet the database that supports Amazon.com The story behind the serverless database built to support the largest ecommerce company in the world Sponsored Feature
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
Microservices forcing a fast, data access rethink To carry it off, make sure you have a database with the right tools for the right job Sponsored Feature
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 |
Take the Oracle FUDbuster test Why Oracle's RDBMS is for every cloud, despite what its salespeople might say Sponsored Feature
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
ElastiCache - When speed is everything Using an in-memory cache is the best option to boost your application performance while keeping costs low, says AWS Advertorial
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
UK government refuses public review before launch of NHS data platform Patients must have the right to decide what information is taken from health records, say privacy campaigners Databases20 Jul 2022 | 130
Hundreds of millions up for grabs as UK taxman set to stick with SAP ECC6.0 Updated Support for finance system ends in 2027, leaving questions for HMRC Databases19 Jul 2022 | 3
SAP unlikely to see most customers move from ECC before support ends But those who show willing in S/4HANA upgrade might see existing ERP support extended, says Gartner Databases08 Jul 2022 |
Oracle 12.1 users warned as mainstream support ends in July 12.1 friends without benefits as database pros question LTR with Oracle 12.2 Databases08 Jul 2022 | 3
Oracle, IBM losing ground to local databases in China, says IDC One market down on China's march toward tech self-sufficiency, a bajillion more to go. Databases06 Jul 2022 | 5
We need a Library of Congress – but for the digital world Opinion Hack the future with a meta museum: 1 weird trick to free 50 years of digital life Databases04 Jul 2022 | 31
Cloudera adopts Apache Iceberg, battles Databricks to be most open in data tables Move follows Databricks' donation of Delta Lake 2.0 to Linux Foundation Databases01 Jul 2022 |
DataStax launches streaming data platform with backward support for JMS Or move to Apache Pulsar for efficiency gains, says NoSQL vendor Databases29 Jun 2022 |
Infor to stop developing CM3 on-prem software for IBM iSeries Updated ERP vendor had promised containerized options, but looks set to focus on the cloud Databases29 Jun 2022 |
YugabyteDB tempts devs with read-committed isolation levels It's easier than retraining PostgreSQL devs, says distributed relational database startup Databases28 Jun 2022 | 2
Rows, columns, and the search for a database that can do everything Analysis Snowflake last week promised analytics and transactions in the same system. For some it was déjà vu all over again Databases22 Jun 2022 | 6
NoSQL player Aerospike links up with Starburst for SQL-based access to edge data 'We’re not necessarily replacing Snowflake' is an interesting choice of words Databases15 Jun 2022 |
Cassandra vendor DataStax secures $115m investment for $1.6b valuation Tech stock crash fails to deter Goldman Sachs as it leads funding round in the real-time data specialist Databases15 Jun 2022 | 1
Database from the 1980s needs time travel says author It's back to the future for PostgreSQL as Michael Stonebraker lists priorities for the popular open-source system he helped create Databases14 Jun 2022 | 5
MongoDB wants to grab work from other databases Analysis Goal is to bring analytics to its transactional workloads but there are places where this might fall short Databases13 Jun 2022 | 4
Concerns that £360m data platform for NHS England is being set up to fail Delays said to favor Palantir as health service seeks suppliers to support its top-down data revolution Databases13 Jun 2022 | 43
Oracle plans US database for electronic health records Based in the Big Red cloud, the system will suck up records from hospitals and physicians, says CTO Larry Ellison Databases10 Jun 2022 | 18
MongoDB announces columnstore indexing for its document database Boost to in-database analytics should help replace some human decision-making, vendor claims Databases07 Jun 2022 | 1
Keeping your head as an entire database goes pear-shaped Who, Me? How do you spell 'backup' again? 'D' 'R' 'O' 'P'... Databases30 May 2022 | 135
We have bigger targets than beating Oracle, say open source DB pioneers Advocates for MySQL and PostgreSQL see broader future for movement they helped create Databases25 May 2022 | 12
CockroachDB adds command line tool as database hits version 22.1 The Register speaks to Jim Walker about maturity and super regions Databases24 May 2022 | 5
Beware the fury of a database developer torn from tables and SQL Who, Me? Not so much process privilege rings, more circles of hell Databases23 May 2022 | 176
Percona launches management system aimed at open-source databases Percona Live PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL tools for overly busy DBAs, less experienced devs Databases17 May 2022 |
Oracle really does owe HPE $3b after Supreme Court snub Appeal petition as doomed as the Itanic chips at the heart of decade-long drama Databases17 May 2022 | 59
Finnish open-source-as-a-service startup Aiven adds $1bn to valuation Demand for PostgreSQL and Kafka driving interest in cloud service, CEO tells The Register Databases13 May 2022 | 3
What 'share of wallet' means and why it matters to SAP German software giant reprises old motifs at annual show Sapphire Databases12 May 2022 | 3
A discounting disaster averted at the expense of one's own employment Who, Me? I know what this process needs: Microsoft Access! Databases02 May 2022 | 87
Microsoft fixes cross-account vulns in Azure Database for PostgreSQL service Presented by the Wiz team that found the Cosmos DB flaw Databases28 Apr 2022 | 2
Aerospike takes swipe at document databases JSON support MongoDB, Couchbase in the crosshairs as Aerospike tries to broaden use cases Databases28 Apr 2022 | 1
Oracle to release on-prem software usage tools to prep cloud switch Experts advise caution in sharing data with Big Red – it could be used in license audits Databases25 Apr 2022 | 13
Oracle contracts and pricing a 'challenge', says Gartner While heaping praise on Big Red, analysts find room to criticize licensing, negotiations, and integration Databases21 Apr 2022 | 6
New graph database features eschew need for DBAs Python's stranglehold in data science makes Neo4j rethink language strategy Databases12 Apr 2022 | 3
Db2 13 makes z/OS debut, promises AI, hybrid cloud features Long-awaited major release welcomed by users who wish IBM would promote it a little more Databases11 Apr 2022 | 2
Real-time data analytics firm Tinybird nets $37m in Series A Millions of rows per second in real time, so the legend goes... Databases05 Apr 2022 | 1
SAP hits 50: Entrenched, spread out and fully middle-aged Feature Tech’s posterchild of German industrial success must face its failures as it succumbs to midlife angst Databases01 Apr 2022 | 21
SAP users struggling with data management for S/4HANA migration UK and Ireland survey reveals difficulties with housekeeping Databases30 Mar 2022 | 8