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Latest Disruptions in Databases Favour Free/Libre Software

Posted in Database, Free/Libre Software, Oracle at 4:18 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

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Summary: Oracle/Microsoft domination in databases is eroding as new players that consider themselves to be “open-source” gain traction

Google is phasing out and moving out of MySQL [1,2], dealing a blow to Oracle [3] after Oracle sued Google (over Android). Oracle has had a lot to fear because of Free software. Oracle essentially shares Microsoft’s pain. PostgreSQL, in the mean time, has a new release [4] and MongoDB [5], one of the NoSQL databases [6,7], shows promise. These new trends in the databases market sure work in favour of Free/open source software because the main gainers here are — for the most part — at least partly Free software. Companies like Microsoft and Oracle are poised to lose and Red Hat et al. will gain. █

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    Couchbase develops and sells an open-source NoSQL database that to date has been a server-deployed product. The Couchbase Lite effort changes that, providing developers with a native small footprint database that can run on either Apple iOS or Google Android mobile operating systems.

  7. Couchbase relaxes NoSQL derrière into mobile seats

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