How effective are free and open source data bases? For answers, we reviewed 6:: Microsoft SQL Server Express, PostgreSQL, Oracle's MySQL, MariaDB, Apache Derby and Firebird SQL. Free or open source ...

Microsoft is enabling its free SQL CE (SQL Server Compact Edition) database to work within ASP.Net Web applications, thus providing a lightweight database option for ASP.Net Web development, a ...

DBeaver is a free, open-source, cross-platform SQL client and database administration tool. It is designed to support a wide variety of SQL and NoSQL databases, including MySQL and PostgreSQL. Its key ...

In a move to capture a piece of the cloud computing pie, Microsoft announced its upcoming Azure Services Platform back in October last year. Today it unleashed a free trial of SQL Azure Database, the ...

Missouri State University’s information systems department and Web start-up Savvica Inc. don’t have a lot in common apart from tight budgets. In recent years, that would have likely meant choosing a ...

Analyst firm Hydrasight research director John Brand believes even if free databases are now available from the tier-1 vendors, the commercial database is unlikely to disappear completely. “There are ...