Released today, PostgreSQL 9.1 adds support for foreign tables, per-column collation support, K-Nearest-Neighbor Indexing, and adds extensions that simplify packaging of additions to PostgreSQL. A ...

PostgreSQL has been around in some form since 1986, yet somehow keeps getting younger and hipper with each year. Startups like Timescale have found old-school PostgreSQL to be key to building their ...

YugabyteDB 2.13 is a highly scalable, distributed version of PostgreSQL that combines compelling ideas from Google Cloud Spanner and Amazon Aurora—and serves as a Cassandra-compatible database too.

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. PostgreSQL is now the second most popular open source database worldwide according to DB-Engines and it ...

Postgres continues to ride high in the database popularity stakes — and the new features appearing in its next release will only add to that appeal, according to Dave Page, a member of the open-source ...

At the risk of protesting too much in the shifting database landscape, NoSQL-based MongoDB has attempted to trash the ...

Programmers say the new version of the open-source database is 5 to 30 percent faster and works better on Windows. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

PostgreSQL compatibility is a no-brainer for any modern database offering a unique feature set. Every modern database vendor is now offering some level of compatibility to reach developers and ...

I have to switch, I need to use PostGIS and MySQL geometry just isn't good enough. But ugh - there is no way to grant a bunch of privileges to all tables to a user that doesn't own the tables (such as ...

CAMBRIDGE, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Redgate Software, the provider of end-to-end database DevOps, announced today that its popular SQL Server database monitoring tool, SQL Monitor, now supports ...