Database giant buys Sleepycat Software and adds an open-source embedded database to its lineup.

The database vendor says doesn't fear open-source competition and it will continue to go to market with vertical industry solutions that solve specific business problems.

Despite the ascendancy of open source, It's far too early to count Oracle out of the database wars.

Database heavyweight Oracle has acquired Innobase Oy, a privately held Finnish company with close ties to open-source database company MySQL.

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Oracle has acquired open-source database vendor Sleepycat Software, strengthening its hand in the embedded database market and putting to rest at least one of the rumors about its plans to buy ...

Oracle has tried to break into this field with its own Oracle NoSQL database and Oracle Big Data Appliance, but the real action remains in the world of open source, according to DB-Engines.

Salesforce has been increasingly looking into PostgreSQL, an open source database, and hiring people who could provide some alternative to Oracle. The rationale is clear: Salesforce needs to ...

MariaDB Corp. is openly targeting database kingpin Oracle Corp., releasing a new version of its open-source database today with features that have previously been available only in expensive ...

Oracle has no means of stopping open source software from cannibalizing its proprietary database market, so the company has likely decided that it might as well profit from the trend.

That success gave Oracle the resources to move up market into business applications, and to make its recent $6.3 billion hostile bid for PeopleSoft Inc. to try to accelerate that push.

Oracle said on Tuesday that it acquired open-source database company Sleepycat Software for an undisclosed sum. The database giant said Sleepycat's open-source Berkeley DB database will complement ...