Postgres continues to ride high in the database popularity stakes — and the new features appearing in its next release will only add to that appeal, according to Dave Page, a member of the open-source ...

Deutsche Bank analyst Karl Keirstead wants to soothe Oracle that it needn't fear the open-source reaper, arguing that open-source databases "don't represent a near-term threat" to Oracle's database ...

The most important new feature for accelerated queries is the asynchronous IO subsystem (AIO), which has “proven up to threefold performance improvements when reading from memory,” according to the ...