With all this talk of electoral reform in the air, is it too tenuous a link to ask whether we need a fresh approach to multiple platform database aggregation? Could that "single view of disparately ...

One of the interesting design challenges facing the people supporting the IEED research effort discussed yesterday involves how much of the key applications to embed in the database design. In that ...

[Excerpted from "Protecting Databases From Web Applications," a new report published today in Dark Reading's Database Security Tech Center.] Web applications are rich targets for attackers. Available ...

Oracle announces agentic AI capabilities for Oracle AI Database, including Private Agent Factory, Deep Data Security, and ...

The days of one-size-fits-all, monolithic databases are behind us. As Werner Vogels, CTO and vice president of Amazon.com, said, “Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases.” ...

One of the great things about the IT industry is that there’s no shortage of innovative companies coming up with a wide range of products to address niche problems. Today’s article covers a compendium ...

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An easy search of VirusTotal for open Firebase databases found more than 2,100 datastores used by mobile applications were left accessible by developers, exposing company bank balances, family photos, ...

Was it just two or three years ago when choosing a database was easy? Those with a Cadillac budget bought Oracle, those in a Microsoft shop installed SQL Server, those with no budget chose MySQL.

NoSQL databases: Neo4J If there’s one application that’s most different in this collection, it’s Neo4J, a tool optimized to store graphs instead of data. The Neo4J folks use the word “graph” like a ...