Enterprise data platforms increasingly unite analytics, governance and orchestration, with new generative and agentic AI-enabled features to improve autonomy and speed.

Such a move could trigger displeasure at Oracle but curry favor with open-source advocates. Image: A Sun database?

Free and open-source software is making a splash in the world of databases. But is it reliable enough for your critical applications?

Qdrant targets AI researchers and developers with an open source vector search engine and database for unstructured data.

As Oracle, IBM and Microsoft ready the next competitive round, open-source alternatives start to make their mark.

Open Source data-diff for Building and Managing Data Quality Available today, data-diff uses checksums to verify 100% consistency between two different data sources quickly and efficiently.

Efficiency in AI development, paired with open source sharing in the industry, can help empower startups and enterprise ML ...

The three fastest growing databases of 2014 were all open source, according to a new report.

Raising its stakes in open-source software, IBM plans to create an open-source project around Cloudscape, a specialized Java database, CNET News.com has learned.

Open source software has made significant inroads into many enterprise data centers. IT managers have seen the licensing cost savings, and flexibility, scalability and reliability of open source ...

Thanks to stalwarts like MySQL, MongoDB, and Cassandra, the database realm has been a haven for open source -- but the cloud is changing all that ...

An annotated roundup of open-source database packages and development tools.