mongo-c-driver 0.94.0

On Friday I tagged the newest release of my primary responsibility at MongoDB, the new C driver. The driver is split up into two libraries, libbson[1] and mongo-c-driver. It feels like a natural split, since there seems to be a lot of interest in BSON outside of MongoDB.

MongoDB celebrates open source with version 2.6

OPEN SOURCE DATABASE MongoDB reached version 2.6 on Tuesday after a six month developer test.

MongoDB 2.6 Improves Open-Source Database Performance

MongoDB 2.6 delivers simplified operations and enterprise security

MongoDB has officially released the latest version of its namesake NoSQL database, which introduces a number of changes designed to make it simpler to manage and operate, as well as making it easier to add new features in future.

MongoDB 2.6: Our Biggest Release Ever

The software-defined business cometh

AppDynamics' Spring 2014 Release includes new support for NoSQL Big Data stores including MongoDB and Hadoop, Couchbase and Cassandra through its extensible API framework.

SQL giant Oracle plans NoSQL standards body – top Reg sources

Database giant Oracle is attempting to create a NoSQL standards body, The Register has learned.

The puzzling move was disclosed to El Reg on Friday by multiple well-placed sources at multiple database companies, who were each familiar with the matter.

MarkLogic champions 'semantic context' for NoSQL data insight

NoSQL database platform company MarkLogic is having a successful period of growth and says that MarkLogic release 7 is marked out for its elasticity, tiered storage and semantics capabilities.

SQL and NoSQL come together with new MariaDB Enterprise offerings

The products are based on MariaDB 10, which became generally available on Monday

Hyperscale Titans Team To Scale MySQL

Four of the titans of hyperscale Web applications – Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter – have teamed up to create a set of common extensions aimed specifically at running the open source MySQL relational database at scale.

Has SkySQL MariaDB pulled off the NoSQL + SQL combo challenge?

There is something of a war of words (and code) going on between the NoSQL and SQL database camps.

MariaDB Enterprise 2 Bridges The Gap Between SQL And NoSQL

The latest release of MariaDB Enterprise removes the need to choose between different database technologies, says SkySQL

Oracle doubles the speed of MySQL query handling

For the next release of its open source MySQL, Oracle is making a number of changes designed to vastly boost the speed of the open source relational database management system.

Such a sizeable performance bump could help organizations save money in server purchases, because it would require fewer servers to run large jobs. Or, it will allow them to run complex queries that might have taken too long to run on earlier versions of the database system, said Tomas Ulin, Oracle vice president of MySQL engineering.

On Monday, the company released the latest development version of the software, MySQL Development Milestone 5.7.4, along with a number of associated programs for managing the database. The last major version of MySQL, version 5.6, was released in February 2013.

The MariaDB Foundation Announces General Availability of MariaDB 10

London, United Kingdom – 31 March 2014 – The MariaDB Foundation, an independent body which promotes the popular open source database MariaDB, today announced the much-anticipated general availability of MariaDB 10, providing today’s generation of application developers with enhanced performance and functionality.

Facebook rebooting their open source contributions

Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter Collaborate On Open-Source Database Project

Facebook, other Web giants unite to scale MySQL

Facebook's WebScaleSQL, Cisco investing in OpenStack, and more

Google and Facebook Team Up to Modernize Old-School Databases

Facebook announces WebScaleSQL

Forkin' 'L! Facebook, Google and friends create WebScaleSQL from MySQL 5.6

The open-source WebScaleSQL branch of MySQL 5.6 was announced by Facebook on Thursday, and uses version 2 of the GNU General Public License. Engineers from Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook have contributed to the project, although the group is inviting other interested parties to join as well.

WebScaleSQL: MySQL for Facebook-sized databases

CitusDB Releases An Open-Source PostgreSQL Tool That Promises Better Database Performance

CitusDB, a database analytics startup that is hoping to take on big boys like Oracle, today announced the release of CSTORE, a columnar store extension for PostgreSQL. The open-source tool, which the company says is the first for PostgreSQL, is available for a free download starting today.

AMD: Why we had to evacuate 276TB from Oracle DB to Hadoop

AMD has migrated terabytes of information from an Oracle Database installation to an Apache Hadoop stack, claiming Oracle's pricey software was suffering from scaling issues.

NoSQL or RDBMs: who will win the database war?

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Sandor Klein of EDB, a provider of enterprise-class products and services based on PostgreSQL.