DB-Engines, a site that uses a combination of metrics to track various database technologies, recently crowned Oracle most popular among the 290 databases it follows.

Originally published by Sramana Mitra on LinkedIn: Should Oracle Buy MongoDB? According to a Market Research Media report published earlier this year, the global NoSQL market is estimated to grow ...

That need prompted MongoDB (NASDAQ: MDB) to introduce Atlas, a non-relational database that can store unstructured data types. However, Oracle responded by introducing its own non-relational database.

Oracle had better watch its back. There’s a new (ish) database player on the market that wants to eat its lunch; dinner, breakfast and dessert too, for that matter. Say hello to MongoDB.

Oracle’s view of the SQL versus NoSQL landscape is one in which there is plenty of opportunity for both. Despite the popularity of NoSQL for unstructured data, SQL is not disappearing anytime soon.

For Max Schireson — the president of 10gen, the company behind the open source NoSQL database MongoDB — Oracle’s march into his territory is no surprise. “Ten or 15 years ago, Oracle was ...

He is CEO and co-founder of 10gen, which develops and supports MongoDB, an open source, non-relational database in the NoSQL vein.

MongoDB is often the first NoSQL database developers will try because it’s so easy to learn. Will Shulman, CEO of MongoLab (a MongoDB-as-a-service provider), says it this way: ...

The next release of Oracle Autonomous JSON Database cloud service adds support for a MongoDB 4.2-compatible API, making its offering look very familiar to MongoDB developers.

Given Oracle's longtime presence in the tech industry, it is the more stable stock of the two. As the world's largest database management company, it has long served customers and shareholders ...