Upstart NoSQL software vendor MongoDB has snagged a key engineer from the ranks of Oracle, the company's largest competitor in the database software market. Roger Bamford, a 30-year Oracle veteran, ...

DB-Engines' rankings show Oracle is the database most talked about by recruiters and developers, but open source databases posted gains DB-Engines, a site that uses a combination of metrics to track ...

Of any enterprise technology, enterprises are most dedicated to their chosen database. Once data goes into a particular database, CIOs hate to take it out. It's costly, and the risks often outweigh ...

MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria took the time to sit down with me at the company’s European event in London this week, where he claimed that MongoDB is increasingly encroaching on Oracle’s database lead - ...

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Oracle is the world's second largest software company in the multi-billion dollar software market with revenues in excess of $37 billion and a market capitalization of approximately $175 billion. The ...

Just four months ago, Oracle released a very official-looking corporate white paper intent on “debunking the hype” surrounding the NoSQL movement — a widespread effort to build a new breed of database ...