IBM released a free version of its flagship DB2 database today, sweetening the pot by eliminating some of the key user limits imposed by rival vendors. IBM’s DB2 Universal Database Express-C is ...

A relational database is a collection of information organized as a set of formally described tables from which data can be accessed or reassembled in many different ways without having to reorganize ...

A good part of the tectonic shifts in this space are owed to a degree of consolidation. In the past year, Oracle has taken over Sun Microsystems, which was the purveyor of the MySQL platform (the "M" ...