Database

Ingres Database 9.3 Aims at Competitors with Easy Migration Path

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:00:00 EDT

Ingres Corporation announced the availability of Ingres Database 9.3, the latest version of the company’s flagship open source database product. Ingres Database 9.3 offers easy migration from MySQL, as well as from proprietary databases such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and Sybase. Ingres Database 9.3 boasts a number of key features to help java application developers be more productive and is specifically designed to help meet the demands of a rapidly growing partner community with Liferay certification. Ingres Database 9.3 also highlights the importance community contributions play in the innovation of open source software by including features to the database engine that were added by its community members.

Fortifying Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:15:00 EDT

Change Data Capture is the most recent important change in the way the ETL Process is perceived for a dynamic business environment. In a generic sense CDC may be understood as, "What did change since the last time I looked it up?" In an image recognition situation this may mean what has changed in the scenery from the previous frame (it could be a few pixels or, a major part of a scene). In a database with huge amount of data one may want to know what has changed in the last ten days? ten minutes? ten seconds? to make a intelligent business decision.

So Oracle Thinks It’s Buying MySQL, Huh

Fri, 15 May 2009 15:30:00 EDT

MySQL refuses to go gentle into Oracle’s uncertain arms. Monty Widenius, principal author of the original version of the open source database and a founder of the MySQL company that Sun bought last year for a billion dollars, is proposing to wrest control of the widgetry from Oracle.