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 ...

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 ...

Oracle (ORCL-2.73%) and IBM (IBM-0.89%) 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 ...

According to market research from International Data Corporation (IDC), Microsoft's SQL Server product is slowly catching up to Oracle and IBM in relational database management system (RDBMS ...

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 ...

Teradata addresses the issue of combining unstructured, semi-structured and traditional row-and-column data warehousing in a single architecture ...