Infobright on Monday unwrapped a new version of its open source data warehouse for analytics — and shared its lofty expectations for the product. “What MySQL did for databases, letting the low ...

MySQL and PostgreSQL are two popular open-source database products. The addition of stored procedures to MySQL 5.0 is designed to make the database more attractive to corporate customers .

Open sourcing the project, according to Belmonte, is a way to help others be able to quickly and easily visualize and explore their own data sets, including very large collections.

When two Boston-area organizations rolled out an interactive data visualization website last month, it represented one of the largest public uses yet for the open-source project Weave — and more ...

John Engates is the CTO of Rackspace Hosting and an evangelist for the open cloud. Open source data has a split personality. There’s the NoSQL zealot who likes to fire off tirades against the ...

MySQL is the second most popular database in use, according the DB-Engines Ranking, and is a key element of the LAMP — Linux, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL, PHP — open-source web development stack.

Traditionally, the comparison between PostgreSQL and MySQL gets heated from both sides of the religious camps. They are both technically strong, open-source ... hold the data it manages.

“Open source is advancing forward at the database level as MySQL has made good progress over the last several years,” said Mark Smith, CEO of Ventana Research, an IT research and advisory firm.

The company releases a developer version of MySQL 5.0, which can create and ... published by developer research company Evans Data. Open-source databases are seen as a viable alternative to ...