Database software
With the volumes of digital data used by businesses growing at exponential rates, having the right information management and database software becomes key to corporate decision-making. While established products such as Oracle, DB2 and Informix remain widely used, open source alternatives such as MySQL and Ingres offer potential alternatives for IT managers. We examine the issues around choosing the right products and strategies for your organisation.
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News
23 Oct 2024
ServiceNow touts Now platform as AI engine for transformation
At the ServiceNow World Forum in Melbourne, company executives touted the transformative power of AI in streamlining workflows, improving user experiences and driving business value Continue Reading
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News
15 Oct 2024
Hillingdon Council commits £9m to tech revamp in digital strategy
Hillingdon’s three-year digital strategy will see the council fund attempts to modernise its systems and infrastructure, change how residents interact with the local authority and make better use of data Continue Reading
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Blog Post
23 Jun 2021
How do you solve a problem like ‘bad database days’ MariaDB?
MariaDB Community Server 10.6 has arrived. But, to be honest, version 10.6 doesn’t sound like more than a ‘point release’ not worth worrying too much about, right? The company insists otherwise and ... Continue Reading
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News
23 Jun 2021
DataStax eyes growth in APAC
DataStax opens regional headquarters in Singapore to tap the growth opportunities in Asia-Pacific where more organisations are modernising legacy systems and building cloud-native apps Continue Reading
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Definition
22 Jun 2021
Db2
Db2 is a family of database management system (DBMS) products from IBM that serve a number of different operating system (OS) platforms. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
15 Jun 2021
Et nubes ad astra: DataStax Astra Streaming
Clouds talk, it’s a fact. More specifically, individual application components, services and data commodities need to exchange information with each other in order to form the DNA of live ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
10 Jun 2021
Nutanix adds HPE sauce to hybrid multi-cloud combos
As we know, Hewlett Packard became HP… and then, once the earth cooled, HP became HP Inc and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). While HP Inc continued to sell ink (pun intended) inside its printer ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
04 Jun 2021
Computational Storage - VAST Data: Practical truths for pragmatic file systems
In a number of follow-up pieces to the Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) series focusing on Computational Storage, CWDN continues the thread with some extended analysis in this space. The ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
31 May 2021
Computational storage: NGD Systems / SNIA - Icebergs at the Edge
Software runs on data and data is often regarded as the new oil. So it makes sense to put data as close to where it is being processed as possible, in order to reduce latency for performance-hungry ... Continue Reading
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News
27 May 2021
BCS demands reform to rules on computer evidence following Post Office Horizon scandal revelations
Professional IT body wants changes to how computer evidence is used in court in the wake of the Post Office case Continue Reading
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Blog Post
27 May 2021
Computational storage: Pure Storage - Segment, sandbox, stream & shape for storage supremacy
Software runs on data and data is often regarded as the new oil. So it makes sense to put data as close to where it is being processed as possible, in order to reduce latency for performance-hungry ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
24 May 2021
Computational storage series: Evaluator Group - Speculations, expectations & extrapolations
Software runs on data and data is often regarded as the new oil. So it makes sense to put data as close to where it is being processed as possible, in order to reduce latency for performance-hungry ... Continue Reading
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Feature
11 May 2021
Computational storage: What is it? Why now, what for, who from?
Computational storage is an emerging architecture category, in which compute is put near storage to address I/O bottlenecks resulting from large volumes of data Continue Reading
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Blog Post
10 May 2021
Computational storage: A Computer Weekly analysis series
Software runs on data and data is often regarded as the new oil. So it makes sense to put data as close to where it is being processed as possible, in order to reduce latency for performance-hungry ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
10 May 2021
Percona open source barometer: licences, prices & pandemic crisis
Open source database company Percona has said that the pandemic has accelerated database workloads moving to the cloud, but - with this movement - companies are also finding that costs rise… and, ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
05 May 2021
K8ssandra now runs on ‘any’ Kubernetes
K8ssandra, an open-source distribution of the Apache Cassandra database on Kubernetes, is now available on any Kubernetes environment. When we say ‘any’, we mean any. It is available on any ... Continue Reading
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News
27 Apr 2021
Papa John’s embarks on ‘multi-phase’ move to Google Cloud
Papa John’s International has set out plans to shutter its datacentres and revamp its customer experience to include a move towards real-time tracking data for its deliveries Continue Reading
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News
21 Apr 2021
Anti-food-waste app Karma taps up Google Cloud to power global expansion plans
Swedish startup Karma is on a mission to help consumers and businesses across the globe fight food waste, and it has enlisted the Google Cloud Platform to help it achieve its goal Continue Reading
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News
16 Apr 2021
SAP users identify data skills shortage as importance of analytics spikes
Research from the SAP UK & Ireland User Group has demonstrated a data skills dearth among users and a delay in using the SAP Hana in-memory database until full S/4 Hana ERP implementations Continue Reading
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News
16 Apr 2021
Teradata eyes cloud opportunity in APAC
The data warehouse software supplier has been positioning itself to capture the region’s cloud opportunities through not only R&D, but also efforts to support enterprises in their cloud journey Continue Reading
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Feature
12 Apr 2021
How the Covid-19 Genomics UK Consortium sequenced Sars-Cov-2
Consortium of universities and other institutions has harnessed datasets, analytics and cloud computing to sequence Sars-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, in a blisteringly short time Continue Reading
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30 Mar 2021
Data lake storage: Cloud vs on-premise data lakes
The data lake is a fundamental concept of data management. But what type of storage do you need to build a data lake on and what are the pros and cons of on-premise vs the cloud? Continue Reading
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Feature
30 Mar 2021
Data warehouse storage: Has cloud made on-premise obsolete?
There once was no alternative to building a data warehouse on-premise, but with cloud providers targeting analytics, building data warehouses on-site is looking obsolete Continue Reading
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News
24 Mar 2021
Covid-torn supply chains speed cloud adoption, says Oracle’s Miranda
Second wave of pandemic has seen some Oracle customers speed up adoption and others attend to some enterprise software housekeeping Continue Reading
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Feature
23 Mar 2021
Anti-money laundering technology must operate in a collaborative ecosystem
With new technologies making it easier for banks to spot money laundering activity, we look at why the problem persists at scale, finding that ecosystems and collaborative processes need to be built Continue Reading
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News
23 Mar 2021
Home Office completes transfer of all business apps to Oracle Cloud
Home Office has completed its deployment of Oracle’s Cloud Applications suite to all its functions across 35,000 staff, ahead of other government departments Continue Reading
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Opinion
11 Mar 2021
Why the London Data Charter could be a foundation stone in the city’s recovery
London First’s director of connectivity and competitiveness, David Lutton, explains why data is at the core of the capital’s recovery plan Continue Reading
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News
11 Mar 2021
Oracle Q3, 2020-21: Revenue growth of 3% backdrop to Ellison attack on SAP
Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison launches competitive attack on SAP as Oracle’s third-quarter results show revenue growth of 3% Continue Reading
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Feature
02 Mar 2021
Covid-19 and the art and science of data visualisation
The pandemic has seen political leaders and civil servants using data visualisation like never before – but there is more to the art than meets the eye Continue Reading
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News
26 Feb 2021
Palantir once more in sights of civil libertarians over NHS Covid data store
The award of a new government contract to data analytics supplier Palantir on the back of its participation in the NHS Covid-19 data store has provoked Open Democracy into legal action, backed up by an exposure of lobbying activity that pre-dates the pandemic Continue Reading
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News
23 Feb 2021
How GeoSpock is supercharging geospatial analytics
Company’s GeoSpock DB is aimed at optimising queries of large volumes of geospatial data with scale and speed Continue Reading
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Feature
18 Feb 2021
Data lake storage: Cloud vs on-premise data lakes
The data lake is a fundamental concept of data management. But what type of storage do you need to build a data lake on and what are the pros and cons of on-premise vs the cloud? Continue Reading
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Opinion
16 Feb 2021
Why Brexit will make software licence transfers and database copyright harder for UK firms
Brexit will make it more difficult for UK companies to sell unused software licences and to enforce their database rights in Europe. Firms will face a legislative disadvantage over AI-generated databases Continue Reading
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News
09 Feb 2021
Oracle claims major win in Australian public sector
Australian Data Centres will deploy Oracle’s Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer to host cloud services for the federal government Continue Reading
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Blog Post
05 Feb 2021
From Metallica to Malbec to MDM, masterly magnificence matters
Anyone can be a novice, an amateur or a beginner - the clue is pretty much in the name, right? Then there’s that second tier of accomplishment… let’s call that intermediary, normal (if you’re ... Continue Reading
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News
28 Jan 2021
SAP launches ‘Rise’ business transformation as a service
SAP CEO Christian Klein announces business transformation as a service package, dubbed Rise Continue Reading
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Blog Post
22 Jan 2021
Programming in the pandemic - Percona: Clouds gather around the DevOps fallout factor
The Computer Weekly Developer Network examines the impact of Covid-19 on the software application development community. With only a proportion of developers classified as key workers (where their ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
13 Jan 2021
Data masking from 3T has MongoDB security automation covered
If you want Post-It Notes, go to 3M. If you want independent MongoDB software tools with incremental security and management layers, go to 3T. That’s the message from the Berlin-based softwarehaus, ... Continue Reading
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News
13 Jan 2021
South Central Ambulance Service drives out of Covid data fog with Qlik
Ambulance service’s business intelligence has come into its own during the coronavirus crisis, helping the managers behind the paramedics to deliver the service with fast data flows and joined-up datasets Continue Reading
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Blog Post
12 Jan 2021
Diving into Open Data Lakes Analytics
Let’s take a quick dip into Open Data Lakes Analytics. But before we do, we need to cross off some names and definitions. This story starts with Ahana, a self-styled ‘self-service’ analytics ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
11 Jan 2021
Oracle: shift back to red on MySQL Analytics Engine
Take a deep breath… Oracle’s eponymously named Oracle MySQL Database Service with integrated MySQL Analytics Engine is a mouthful. Why did the company use such extended language to name one of its ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
08 Jan 2021
Relish with Redis: NoSQL is mustard for microservices
As everybody knows, there’s no hot dogs, pretzels or pork roast without mustard. Microservices, it has been suggested, also need a solid relish (and a bun backbone), without which they fail to be ... Continue Reading
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News
07 Jan 2021
Robust member administration system indispensable for Dutch Coeliac Society
Organisation had to find a dedicated member administration system to support existing members, new members and countless volunteers Continue Reading
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Blog Post
05 Jan 2021
Why the 2020s will be dominated by graph technology
This is a guest blogpost by Emil Eifrem, CEO, Neo4j. In his view, four major trends driving interest in graph technology are starting to surface. Let's look ahead to what could be in store for the ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
14 Dec 2020
Exasol: data supply chains, green data & data-developer destinies
If not quite a future predictions analysis (we've all had far too many of those by now anyway) market intelligence lead at Exasol Helena Schwenk has spoken to the Computer Weekly Developer Network ... Continue Reading
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News
11 Dec 2020
Disputed PostgreSQL bug exploited in cryptomining botnet
PGMiner cryptomining botnet remained unnoticed by exploiting a disputed CVE in PostgreSQL Continue Reading
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Blog Post
07 Dec 2020
The new Nikkei: Dawex launches Japan Data Exchange (JDEX)
Data is, just in case you hadn’t heard, the new lifeblood of business. It is the new oil, the new commodity, the new key ‘good’ and it is (of course) the lifeblood that drives the applications we ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
03 Dec 2020
TIBCO4Good project expansion drives ‘data skills’
Nobody needs to be reminded that 2020 taught us to be kinder, nicer and more caring to people. Many companies have decided to take the chance this year to explain just what they stand for over and ... Continue Reading
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News
26 Nov 2020
Robots taking jobs, but creating careers
Robotic process automation developers tell Computer Weekly about the job they never expected to be doing Continue Reading
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Blog Post
26 Nov 2020
The DBA time machine & the future of data
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Rob Tribe, VP of systems engineering for EMEA region at Nutanix. Tribe contends that today, none of us can attend a ... Continue Reading
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News
19 Nov 2020
Data silos and IT complexity stifle business potential
A study from 451 Research highlights the problems organisations face in managing data Continue Reading
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News
19 Nov 2020
Why databases are key to Alibaba’s Singles’ Day sales
With each order split into multiple database transactions, ensuring the scalability and elasticity of database systems was key to the success of Alibaba’s Singles’ Day sales Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Nov 2020
Intel Optane Persistent Memory aims to fill the gap DRAM can’t
We look at Optane and its PMem product that Intel believes will fill a big gap between memory and storage that DRAM technology just cannot deal with Continue Reading
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News
01 Nov 2020
How Snowflake is charting its growth in APAC
The cloud data warehouse supplier set foot in Asia-Pacific just three years ago and has started to gain traction among large enterprises in Singapore, India and Southeast Asia Continue Reading
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Blog Post
29 Oct 2020
From onerous to harmonious: MongoDB Atlas plays simultaneous multi-cloud tunes
Keen to stress its multi-tool abilities, MongoDB these days calls itself a modern ‘general purpose’ database platform company. The firm is stressing its general (i.e. width and breadth) ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
21 Oct 2020
Percona points to deeper DBaaS amidst cloud billing white noise
Open source database software and services company Percona is not your usual tech firm. It’s annual developer, DBA, data architect convention is a relaxed affair with a no-frills (but rich in ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
14 Oct 2020
Oracle Cloud: One-click instrumentation & observability is now a thing
Oracle is all about data, obviously. But the Oracle of this decade (and recent history) is more specifically all about data and information observability, autonomous control, analytics, diagnostics ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
13 Oct 2020
What to expect from Couchbase Connect 2020
The Computer Weekly Open Source insider team is fond of cloud-native open source distributed shared-nothing architecture multi-model NoSQL document-oriented database software... … but only if it’s ... Continue Reading
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News
12 Oct 2020
Software AG caught in double extortion ransomware hit
Data stolen from prominent German software company by Clop ransomware gang appears on the dark web Continue Reading
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Opinion
08 Oct 2020
Excel is the hammer for too many businesses’ nails
Excel is a fine piece of software, but as Public Health England found out, its ubiquity and ease of use does not make it the ideal tool for every job that involves data Continue Reading
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Blog Post
06 Oct 2020
Nutanix: have faith in the cloud-agnostic multi-DBaaS creed
Nutanix is the cloud software company with a pedigree in hyperconverged infrastructure solutions that wants to ‘make computing invisible anywhere’ - as the t-shirt slogans might read. The company ... Continue Reading
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News
29 Sep 2020
Oracle OpenWorld 2020: Miranda – business model changes are driving turn to cloud
Steve Miranda, who leads Oracle applications development globally, spoke to Computer Weekly ahead of his keynote at the virtual version of OpenWorld. Supply chain management and customer experience are vectors where improvements are being made, he said Continue Reading
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News
15 Sep 2020
Risky development practice leaves company access keys exposed
Database stores, cloud storage and myriad other services are being put at risk by the accidental exposure of company access keys during development Continue Reading
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E-Zine
15 Sep 2020
How data has helped in the fight against coronavirus
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we talk to the Office for National Statistics about the important role data plays in the battle against Covid-19. We also look at the speedy deployment of the Scottish contact-tracing app and report on a discussion about the UK government’s delayed response to its digital identity consultation. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
10 Sep 2020
DataStax points finger at Storage-Attached Indexing
Most IT vendors have product launches, software distributions, beta-stage releases, general availability stages or perhaps release candidates. Cloud-native NoSQL Apache Cassandra data platform ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
25 Aug 2020
Tableau sets the table for neater data preparation
Applications run on data, obviously. But how much time do we think about the way applications get the data fed into them and how well that process is being performed. Data quality, data ingestion ... Continue Reading
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News
25 Aug 2020
MongoDB grows Asian footprint through Alibaba Cloud
MongoDB teams up with Alibaba Cloud to expand its presence in Asia-Pacific as it prepares to release a serverless variant of the open-source database Continue Reading
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News
18 Aug 2020
Oracle takes aim at hyperscalers, eyes VMware workloads
Oracle claims it is addressing the limitations of competing services by offering better security controls, consolidated billing and global availability Continue Reading
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Blog Post
14 Aug 2020
Couchbase serves up 6.6 with developer agility & tranquility
Couchbase is that company we know because its name start with Couch, which in this context is used as an acronym for Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware. We also know Couchbase as the creator ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
11 Aug 2020
Google Cloud hooks up dev tools in Looker
Enterprise organisations used to tell us that they had an ‘IT stack’. This term was meant to express the existence of a software estate sat on a variety of hardware resources with a selection of ... Continue Reading
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News
04 Aug 2020
Google links with eight US banks for current accounts
Tech giant works with banks to layer digital services on top of secure and regulated banking infrastructures Continue Reading
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News
04 Aug 2020
Nordic enterprises look for SAP price reductions as they navigate Covid-19
Businesses in the Nordics are using SAP Cloud Platform to address Covid-19 challenges and are also seeking price reductions Continue Reading
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News
31 Jul 2020
Labour Party is latest victim of Blackbaud ransomware attack
Widening Blackbaud data breach ensnares the Labour Party as the cloud software firm continues to duck questions about its behaviour Continue Reading
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News
24 Jul 2020
Courts to trial digital case management system from September 2020
The Common Platform digital system will eventually replace a series of existing software applications, and will be rolled out to criminal courts over the next year Continue Reading
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Blog Post
20 Jul 2020
HarperDB: It’s all about the (open) DBaaS
The cloud has many resources, obviously. Among the most widely discussed elements of cloud usage as of 2020 is the more widespread use, deployment, implementation, integration to and adoption of ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
20 Jul 2020
Modern development - MongoDB: Putting a steer on citizen developers
This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development. As we have initially ... Continue Reading
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News
15 Jul 2020
HSBC chooses AWS for public cloud business operations
HSBC will use a cloud platform from Amazon Web Services across its business operations to accelerate its public cloud use Continue Reading
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News
14 Jul 2020
Recon vulnerability puts thousands of SAP customers at risk
Users of multiple SAP products including S4/HANA should apply the security update as soon as possible to protect their systems Continue Reading
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Blog Post
09 Jul 2020
Exasol provides push from data-passive to data-passion
Exasol is a curious sounding brand name. It might be usefully applied to a petrochemicals company, a topical suncream, or even perhaps (at a push) some kind of anti-inflammatory medication or ... Continue Reading
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News
09 Jul 2020
Oracle fleshes out Cloud@Customer with public cloud services for use in customer datacentres
Oracle has enhanced its Cloud@Customer service with capabilities derived from its recent raft of public cloud datacentres Continue Reading
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News
08 Jul 2020
Oracle ups ante in cloud wars with dedicated customer regions
Oracle’s Dedicated Region Cloud at Customer will let enterprises run an entire cloud region in their own datacentres in a potentially game-changing move Continue Reading
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News
01 Jul 2020
How Propre eases its database management woes
Japanese supplier of global real estate data switched to Oracle’s autonomous database to reduce database management costs as it expands its global footprint Continue Reading
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Blog Post
17 Jun 2020
DataStax draws new path to AIOps: Vector for Apache Cassandra
Open source at the core, but not yet open in the public sense… arguably the tech industry’s most prominent enterprise Apache Cassandra company DataStax has been cooking it up over the Covid-19 ... Continue Reading
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News
17 Jun 2020
Oracle full-year results: 1% revenue decline as Covid-19 bites
Oracle sees 1% decline in full year-on-year 2019-20 revenue, and a 6% drop in its fourth quarter, but takes comfort from OCI Zoom win in pandemic crisis Continue Reading
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News
16 Jun 2020
Government publishes geospatial data strategy to capitalise on location data
National Geospatial Strategy will develop the country’s location data framework over the next five years Continue Reading
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Blog Post
15 Jun 2020
Modern development - Redgate: A contemporary validation for dedicated (database dev models)
This series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development. As we have initially discussed here, with so many new ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
09 Jun 2020
Percona CXO: a database security fix 'in one line of code’
Open source database company Percona has been on the (virtual) road these past few weeks, hosting its web-based Percona Live 2020 conference (in obvious need due to the Covid-19 pandemic) and ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
08 Jun 2020
Instaclustr opens new chapter with Kafka Connect
When you need a (computing) cluster in an instant, who would you call? Perhaps this was the thought process behind the marketing folk at Instaclustr when they decided to give the organization its ... Continue Reading
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News
05 Jun 2020
NHS Covid-19 datastore contracts published under pressure from privacy groups
The government has published the contracts with Palantir, Faculty, Microsoft and Google for the controversial NHS datastore ahead of court proceedings initiated by civil liberties organisation OpenDemocracy Continue Reading
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Blog Post
27 May 2020
Don't let Covid-19 sicken your AI apps too
AI and machine learning might not be the first thing you think of when you start listing the impacts of lockdown, but the Covid-19 crisis is having effects far beyond the obvious ones. It came up ... Continue Reading
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Feature
21 May 2020
Mainframe storage: Three players in a market that’s here to stay
Far from disappearing, the mainframe market and the storage it needs is here to stay for some time. The three key array makers compete with high-end flash-equipped products Continue Reading
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Blog Post
20 May 2020
Percona CEO: Take an unbiased (multi-cloud) approach to cloud databases
Database misconfigurations in the cloud are a problem, one might even say that it’s becoming a common problem. As founder and CEO at Percona, Peter Zaitsev said this week during his organization’s ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
14 May 2020
A star is born, DataStax launches Astra
DataStax is the company behind a ‘highly available’ cloud-native NoSQL data platform built on Apache Cassandra, which (as you probably know) is a free and open source, distributed, wide column ... Continue Reading
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News
07 May 2020
Privacy International to Palantir: We are watching you
Privacy International expresses a qualified welcome for Palantir’s responses to questions about its data integration role in the NHS Covid-19 data store, but continues to raise concerns Continue Reading
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Tip
07 May 2020
Storage and database innovation evolve in tandem
Faster storage means faster database operations. Discover how developments and innovation in storage improves the performance and flexibility of database technology. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
05 May 2020
GigaSpaces: remember in-memory for (faster & bigger) big data crunching
In-memory real-time analytics and data processing company GigaSpaces is known for its InsightEdge brand, a unified analytics, ML and transactional data processing platform. The company is currently ... Continue Reading
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Feature
05 May 2020
Storage 101: Crash-consistent vs application-consistent snapshots
We look at crash-consistent and application-consistent snapshots and backup, how they are defined, the pros and cons of each and the benefits and limits of Windows VSS Continue Reading
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News
04 May 2020
SAP S/4 Hana projects seem set to repeat security missteps
Management consultancy Turnkey’s managing director, Richard Hunt, cautions SAP customers not to repeat errors of the past by making security an expensive afterthought Continue Reading
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Blog Post
30 Apr 2020
What to expect from Percona Live Online 2020
This is the weirdest tech conference, like, ever… we thought. You fly to Amsterdam and the Hilton Amsterdam Airport Schiphol hotel is connected to the airport terminal itself. Okay, it’s a long ... Continue Reading
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News
16 Apr 2020
St Albans council integrates systems in effort to streamline processes
The council of St Albans has implemented a unified digital platform to streamline how citizens interact with its services, as well as its own decision-making processes Continue Reading
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Podcast
14 Apr 2020
Podcast: Ruthlessly prioritise applications during Covid-19
We talk to Alex McMullan, CTO international at Pure Storage, about scaling up storage and compute for remote working and why that means prioritising applications Continue Reading
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News
08 Apr 2020
German diabetes institute uses graph database to connect coronavirus research
DZD, the German Federal Diabetes Research Centre, is using a Neo4j graph database to link up Covid-19 scientific research and scientists Continue Reading