Many of PostgreSQL’s recent changes, from scaling via sharding to adding JSON document-processing functions, have been inspired by NoSQL. The new PostgreSQL 9.5 continues in that vein, but doesn’t ...

One of the most interesting trends in the computer world during the past few years has been the rapid growth of NoSQL databases. The term may be accurate, in that NoSQL databases don't use SQL in ...

Embracing the widely used JSON data-exchange format, the new version of the PostgreSQL open-source database takes aim at the growing NoSQL market of nonrelational data stores, notably the popular ...

Embracing the widely used JSON data-exchange format, the new version of the PostgreSQL open-source database takes aim at the growing NoSQL market of nonrelational data stores, notably the popular ...

Deutsche Bank analyst Karl Keirstead wants to soothe Oracle that it needn't fear the open-source reaper, arguing that open-source databases "don't represent a near-term threat" to Oracle's database ...

Poke around the infrastructure of any startup website or mobile app these days, and you’re bound to find something other than a relational database doing much of the heavy lifting. Take, for example, ...

For this year’s annual update to PostgreSQL, the developers behind the open source database have added several new ways to communicate with other databases and data storage systems. PostgeSQL’s ...

EnterpriseDB says the new free tools that it's releasing on Amazon Web Services will help developers of any skill level exploit PostgreSQL's NoSQL features to create web apps. The PostgreSQL database ...

The most important new feature for accelerated queries is the asynchronous IO subsystem (AIO), which has “proven up to threefold performance improvements when reading from memory,” according to the ...