Salesforce is acquiring a laundry list of databases---NoSQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle. Oracle, however, is rumored to have landed a nine figure deal from Salesforce. Ouch.
Salesforce.com apparently has some company as it looks to hop on the PostgreSQL bandwagon at least as a second database supplier, according to a survey.
The PostgreSQL developers released updates for all major branches of the popular open-source database system on Thursday in order to address several vulnerabilities, including a high-risk one that could allow attackers to crash the server, modify...
Crashable and hackable The maintainers of the PostgreSQL database have released an urgent patch to cope with a vulnerability that allows remote users to crash servers, while authenticated users can execute arbitrary code.…
Heroku customers are getting first access to a critical update to the PostgreSQL database system that will patch a major security hole. The overall PostgreSQL community will get access to an update on Thursday.
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Relational cred from SoMa to Shoreditch Open ... and Shut With the rise of NoSQL, it's easy to assume that old-school relational databases are simply living out their dinosaur dreams for legacy applications. But a funny thing happened on the way...
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Platform-as-a-service poster child Heroku is doubling down on the PostgreSQL database. The company, which built its platform atop Postgres and offers the Heroku Postgres database service, has now built an app that makes it easy for Mac users to...
One of the more notable success stories of the open source world is in the field of databases. A company with a strong commitment to open source has seen tremendous growth and success in the enterprise while contributing to a hugely-respected open...
Leisure Suite Larry When VMware tuned the open-source PostgreSQL 9 database for its ESXi 5.0 hypervisor in the vFabric Spring Java framework, it knew it had to do more to make a convincing production database.…
Postgres Plus goes cloudy EnterpriseDB is trying to pump up the PostgreSQL database to do battle with Oracle 11g and, to a lesser extent, IBM's DB2 and Microsoft's SQL. So the database upstart is upgrading its Postgres Plus Advanced Server 9.1 - and...
Building a Web application today means using a variety of different software technologies, each executing in a different domain. JavaScript, HTML, and CSS in the browser; PHP, Python, Java, Ruby, or the like on the server; MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL...
FireHost is expanding and offering European services, Dell is letting its customers have Linux their way, and EnterpriseDB wants to "cloudify" PostgreSQL.
FireHost's European-Based Secure Cloud Hosting Services Go Live – FireHost...
The upcoming 9.2 release of PostgreSQL could introduce a native JSON data type and support for returning JSON-formatted query results. The patches that implement the JSON functionality were submitted by contributors Robert Haas and Andrew Dunstan in...
PostgreSQL is getting a lot of love from cloud providers this year. It was the first RDBMS chosen for OpenShift, and VMware gave the elephant a big squeeze earlier this year as the platform for its "database as a service." Now Heroku is launching...
The elephant in the data center The drumbeat of improvements keep coming from the PostgreSQL community that hopes to make that database an enterprise-class alternative to the MySQL and 11g databases controlled by Oracle, the three DB2 databases sold...
Engine Yard is moving well beyond its roots. On August 23rd, the company signed an agreement to acquire Orchestra to add PHP to its Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings. Now it's announcing plans to add to its database stack.
In a post last week,...
Rolls own PostgreSQL VMworld Server virtualization juggernaut and cloud puffer VMware is getting into the database business. But it's not selling database the way Oracle or IBM sell databases. It's selling them more like the Microsoft sells...
Postgres Plus Cloud Server
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EnterpriseDB, a provider of enterprise-class products and services based on PostgreSQL, today announced Postgres Plus Cloud Server, which the company has billed as "a full-featured,...
The open source PostgreSQL project just got more manageable, with an announcement today from EnterpriseDB and its Postgres Enterprise Manager. This allows developers and DBA's to monitor and manage both PostgreSQL (from v8.3 or later) and Postgres...
