While SQL is readily available on most platforms these days, there are other alternatives—including NoSQL and NewSQL—that have arisen to address “big data,” as well as less-structured content.

MySQL vs SQL Server. This article will tell you the difference between MySQL and SQL Server in brief. SQL stands for Structured Query Language. MySQL is a database management system, like SQL ...

IBM's SQL didn't have a vast library of supporting functions for Oracle to copy in 1979. So if "language copying" is okay but "API copying" is not, then Oracle arguably did nothing wrong under ...

For years now there's been a constant war between Microsoft supporters and Oracle supporters. Oracle has these features, SQL Server has these features, etc. But that's not really where the real ...

International Business Machines Corporation IBM and Oracle Corporation ORCL are two leading players in the hybrid cloud ...

SQL databases with in-memory column stores, NoSQL with query languages; it looks like the two schools of database design have begun to merge.

Oracle and IBM have a lot in common. Both are tech giants with illustrious histories. Both are attempting to adapt their business models to the demands of big data, the Internet of Things, and a ...

Both Oracle and SQL Server have very well-established communities. ... This release allowed Microsoft to enter the enterprise database market and to compete against the Oracle Database and IBM DB2. In ...

Big SQL will automatically create the wrappers that submit the SQL query to (and pull data back from) DB2 for LUW, Oracle, and Teradata. This data federation feature will also support IBM’s data ...

IBM is extending its commitment to Apache Spark as a key component of in-memory analytics with the latest release of its SQL engine for Hadoop. The new version of IBM Big SQL released last week also ...