The database has been with us for years and will be for many more ? but what will it look like in the future? Danny Bradbury finds out The database has been the supporting strut of the mid-range ...

When XML came along five years ago, promising to rewrite the rules of data management, vendors of relational databases took note, but they didn’t panic. They’d already seen this movie a decade before, ...

Ten years is a long time in IT. But in the world of database systems, a ten year old technology is barely out of kindergarten. Relational databases took a decade to move from the labs to ...

When you think of databases usually MySQL or Oracle or even Microsoft SQL Server come to mind. Yet, object oriented databases have the potential to cut down coding nuts and bolts and speed up app ...

Startup company db4o bjects next week is releasing its object database, db4o, under an open source format, with the product now available either under the GPL via open source or commercially as ...