AWS declares it's Iceberg all the way until customers say otherwise
Cloud giant explains its thinking behind support for Apache open table format
Databases20 Jan 2025 |
Databases
Foundation model for tabular data slashes training from hours to seconds
Good ol' spreadsheet data could benefit from 'revolutionary' approach to ML inferences
Databases15 Jan 2025 | 10
Oracle open source overlord calls it quits, leaves with big ol' pile of shares
38-year veteran Edward Screven led technology and architecture decisions since Sun merger
Databases14 Jan 2025 | 4
Life lesson: Don't delete millions of accounts on the same day you go to the dentist
Who, Me? Or ignore documentation that warns you are about to do something dangerous
Databases13 Jan 2025 | 58
Mail-out madness as insurer offers refunds to customers in error
Hastings has a mystery to solve – how did all those customers get offered refunds?
Databases10 Jan 2025 | 45
Stumbling ERP project racks up sales losses greater than budget
South African retailer struggles with SAP implementation, says it is making improvements
Databases03 Jan 2025 | 6
It's been 20 years since Oracle bought two software rivals, changing the market forever
Feature After lawsuits and poison pills, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards failed to resist the lure of Larry's ambition
Databases02 Jan 2025 | 19
AWS follows Iceberg path to unite analytics platform
Analysis But other obstacles remain before developers get free choice of storage and analytics engines
Databases02 Jan 2025 |
Eight things that should not have happened last year, but did
Opinion 2024's Tech Fail Roll Of Dishonor
Bootnotes01 Jan 2025 | 112
London's Met Police seeks business services, ERP refresh in £370M deal
Contract could be worth a cool £1 billion if associated organizations join
Databases17 Dec 2024 | 9
AWS now renting monster HPE servers, even in clusters of 7,680-vCPUs and 128TB
Heir to Superdome goes cloudy for those who run large in-memory databases and apps that need them
Off-Prem17 Dec 2024 | 20
Oracle gets Big Red reality check after financials fail to impress
Strong year ends with a dip, but Ellison signs Meta deal to boost AI cred
Databases10 Dec 2024 | 4
SAP says GenAI will help solve legacy migration skills shortage
As 2027 support deadline looms, German vendor puts faith in on-trend tech to help SIs do more with less
Databases10 Dec 2024 | 15
Foursquare to close, but Swarm game will live on
And the company is doing the right thing with its database
Databases27 Nov 2024 | 7
UK council still hadn't fully costed troubled Oracle project 2 years in
Updated Meanwhile, budget clambered from £2.6M to nearly £40M, says report
Databases26 Nov 2024 | 54
Microsoft Fabric promises transactions, analytics on one database service
Ignite Windows giant also improving Iceberg support after throwing lot in with Delta Parquet
Databases19 Nov 2024 | 6
Database warhorse SQL Server 2025 goes all-in on AI
Ignite Better locking, improved query optimization, and... Copilot
Databases19 Nov 2024 | 5
UK tax collector inks £366M in ERP deals to get systems into cloud
SAP and Deloitte winners in transition from legacy software to SaaS, which includes housing and transport ministries
Databases18 Nov 2024 |
Microsoft Power Pages misconfigurations exposing sensitive data
NHS supplier that leaked employee info fell victim to fiddly access controls that can leave databases dangling online
Security15 Nov 2024 | 6
Snowflake opens chat-driven access to enterprise and third-party data
Cortex-powered front end for easier access to insights across multiple sources
Databases13 Nov 2024 |
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How to leave the submarine cable cutters all at sea – go Swedish
Opinion Clear rules and guaranteed consequences concentrate the mind wonderfully. Just ask a Russian
OpenAI's ChatGPT crawler can be tricked into DDoSing sites, answering your queries
The S in LLM stands for Security
Donald Trump proposes US government acquire half of TikTok, which thanks him and restores service
Incoming president promises to allow ongoing operations for 90 days just as made-in-China app started to go dark
Trump's freshly minted meme coin passes $10B market cap
Crypto critics unhappy as BTC hits all-time high and Melania launches her own currency
Sage Copilot grounded briefly to fix AI misbehavior
'Minor issue' with showing accounting customers 'unrelated business information' required repairs
Developers feared large chaps carrying baseball bats could come to kneecap their ... test account?
Who, Me? A whole different kind of 'technical debt' turned into real-world trouble
Datacus extractus: Harry Potter publisher breached without resorting to magic
Infosec in brief PLUS: Allstate sued for allegedly tracking drivers; Dutch DDoS; More fake jobs from Pyongyang; and more
AWS declares it's Iceberg all the way until customers say otherwise
Cloud giant explains its thinking behind support for Apache open table format
Ransomware attack forces Brit high school to shut doors
Students have work to complete at home in the meantime
Where does Microsoft's NPU obsession leave Nvidia's AI PC ambitions?
Comment While Microsoft pushes AI PC experiences, Nvidia is busy wooing developers
STORIES
Europe's largest local authority slammed for 'poorest' ERP rollout ever
Government-appointed commissioners say Birmingham severely lacked Oracle skills during disastrous implementation
Databases08 Nov 2024 | 73
Single-platform approach may fall short for AI data management
Data platform vendors can't meet all your needs, warns Gartner
Databases07 Nov 2024 | 3
Users struggle with recipe when moving enterprise apps to the cloud
From meatballs and spaghetti to lasagna – same ingredients, different structure, says analyst
Databases05 Nov 2024 | 8
NHS would be hit by 'significant' costs if UK loses EU data status, warn Lords
As another government yet again seeks to reform UK GDPR, legislators say data must continue to flow
Public Sector23 Oct 2024 | 189
OpenAI's rapid growth loaded with 'corner case' challenges, says Fivetran CEO
Interview GenAI poster child is a 100-story-tall baby with simple infrastructure but extreme demands
Databases23 Oct 2024 |
Clock's ticking on PostgreSQL 12, but not everyone is ready to say goodbye
11% of databases still on aging version with a month of support left
Databases22 Oct 2024 | 10
UK authority struggles to RISE with SAP, throws another £9M at project
Gloucestershire continues with legacy system as SaaS replacement delayed by more than a year
Databases21 Oct 2024 | 13
Someone's finally taking on £10M Hull City Council ERP deal to replace Oracle
Step forward Workday after mega long procurement to support system that went live 22 years ago
Databases18 Oct 2024 | 23
Inexorable march of progress at SAP threatens to leave users behind
AI hardly a hot topic with some customers calling for more innovation on-prem
Databases16 Oct 2024 | 4
NHS England warned about plans to extend Covid-era rules for patient data access
Governance and public consultation need work before rule change goes ahead
Databases16 Oct 2024 | 9
Big data vendors introduce Apache Iceberg features in same week
Market rivals settle on open table format, while Microsoft and Databricks go their own way
Databases14 Oct 2024 | 3
Get more licenses for less with SAP price tiering, advise experts
German ERP vendor entices users to cloud, but be aware of how the system works, ITAM experts warn
Databases14 Oct 2024 | 4
Tencent builds one NoSQL database to rule all data models
Exclusive Tamed DB sprawl and saved cloudy resources with 'X-Stor'
Databases11 Oct 2024 | 8
Workday beats Oracle and Microsoft in UK 'Matrix' ERP deal
The SaaS-only provider and Cognizant snag £144.3M in gov software shake-up
Databases08 Oct 2024 | 8
SAP offers different way to move SQL Server-based software to the cloud
Just don’t call it an alternative to RISE with SAP
Databases07 Oct 2024 | 3
The force is strong in Iceberg: Are the table format wars entering the final chapter?
Interview Former Apple engineer and Apache PMC member Russell Spitzer describes efforts to unite around a single format
Databases03 Oct 2024 | 26
Mega supermarket spots stock discrepancy of tens of millions amid ERP system migration
Exclusive Britain's Asda admits tech divorce from ex-owner Walmart is still overrunning
Databases03 Oct 2024 | 109
MongoDB rebuts claims it's not ready for business critical workloads
Shifting battle-hardened systems to document model – are your skills and tools ready?
Databases03 Oct 2024 | 24
Oracle settles customer NetSuite dispute out of court
Allegations of fraud and unfair business practices dismissed after private mediation
Databases30 Sep 2024 | 3
Cockroach Labs CEO: Diverse database models are essential as app demands surge
Interview Licensing mixes also needed lest vendors give too much away
Databases27 Sep 2024 |
Data harvesting superapp admits it struggled to wield data – until it built an LLM
Engineers at Grab don't need to ask each other questions any more
AI + ML27 Sep 2024 | 9
SAP support auto-renewal gotcha: Do nothing now, pay for another year
Updated Single digit price hikes suspected for UK and Europe and double digit mooted for everywhere else
Databases26 Sep 2024 | 13
Snowflake seeks to raise funds with $2B bond sale
Poorly received by investors, the moves comes in a difficult year
Databases24 Sep 2024 | 4
Majority of Redis users considering alternatives after less permissive licensing move
Valkey leads interest in FOSS alternatives after database slinger tightens terms
Databases20 Sep 2024 | 19
Europe's largest city council: Oracle ERP allocated £2B in transactions to wrong year
Workers forced to manually correct setup that struggles to produce auditable accounts after customizations
Databases20 Sep 2024 | 51
ERP modernization? Admins have heard of it
Back-end systems fail to get the love given to SaaSy customer-facing counterparts
Databases19 Sep 2024 | 6
UK pensions department's project to unite government ERP systems comes to £1.9B
Four branches attempt to streamline HR and business processes
Public Sector18 Sep 2024 | 12
Prosecutors confirm probe into SAP CTO amid allegations of sexual harassment
Jürgen Müller agreed to step down from his role at the end of September
Databases17 Sep 2024 | 2
Sainsbury's bags a ticket to RISE with SAP, hoping not to trip like Asda
UK's second largest retailer set to move ERP to the cloud with AWS, Accenture, and the German software gaint
Databases17 Sep 2024 | 5
Snowflake's Unistore still on ice years after announcement
Cloud unicorn struggles to make database that can do everything 'margin positive'
Databases16 Sep 2024 | 3
RISE with SAP sinking year on year
Updated Gartner: ERP giant’s flagship cloud-and-upgrade package falls as a ratio of total sales with support deadline looming
Databases16 Sep 2024 | 6
As Oracle's AWS deal completes Big 3 triumvirate, questions remain over licensing
Analysis Some users will see the appeal of Big Red stacking its hardware in Amazon's datacenters
Databases13 Sep 2024 | 21
Redis justifies open source shift with fresh hardware, LLM cost-saving features
Interview CEO argues more restrictive licensing was key to DB refresh, and says team 'expected' the fork
Databases12 Sep 2024 | 1
Private equity commits MariaDB takeover transaction
Post-IPO chapter ends after SQL biz shed jobs, products in bid to find buyer
Databases10 Sep 2024 | 7
Oracle reports rising top line as it hooks up database service to AWS
Plus: CTO Larry says Big Red uses hardware 'efficiently' but 'labor sparingly because labor is a security risk'
Databases10 Sep 2024 | 4
Cassandra redesigns indexing, storage management for 5.0 release
Users warned to get off 3.x releases as support ends
Databases10 Sep 2024 |
Key aspects of Palantir's Federated Data Platform lack legal basis, lawyers tell NHS England
Exclusive Unless solution found, patients must be allowed to opt out
Databases05 Sep 2024 | 60
SAP CTO bows out over 'incident' at company shindig
Board member offers apology for 'inappropriate' behavior
Databases03 Sep 2024 | 18
MongoDB takes a swing at PostgreSQL after claiming wins against rival
Open source competitor is still the most popular database among devs, though
Databases30 Aug 2024 | 21
Enterprise SAP users split between on-prem and cloud as migration challenges loom
This is despite the German vendor's preferred upgrade path
Databases28 Aug 2024 | 8
31.5M invoices, contracts, patient consent forms, and more exposed to the internet
Exclusive Unprotected database with 12 years of biz records yanked offline
CSO26 Aug 2024 | 28
Snowflake claims Iceberg wins table format wars, and Databricks has just proved it
The data analytics vendor's CEO says rival's over $1 billion Tabular acquisition is the 'vindication'
Databases22 Aug 2024 | 2
Prior UK government planned £485M four-year budget for Palantir-based healthcare system
Exclusive Documents from NHS England meeting reveal scope of politicos spending intent
Databases21 Aug 2024 | 22
PostgreSQL in line for DuckDB-shaped boost in analytics arena
Microsoft-backed extension aims to address open source database's perceived weaknesses
Databases20 Aug 2024 |
City council faces £216.5M loss over Oracle system debacle
Europe's largest local authority canceled expected savings baked into financial plans
Databases20 Aug 2024 | 107
CockroachDB scuttles away from open source Core offering
Distributed database biz doesn't like bigger customers using the free version of its software
Databases19 Aug 2024 | 14
Warren Buffett ditches his near-$1B Snowflake investment
Oracle of Omaha's exit follows revenue growth shortfall, CEO switch, and customer data leak
Databases16 Aug 2024 | 23
Can't get Minecraft, MongoDB Cloud, others to work today? Blame that Azure outage
Shut the Front Door!
PaaS + IaaS30 Jul 2024 | 15
Now as many as 10,000 SAP jobs to be hit by restructure
Revenue and underlying profit please markets in Q2 as German software giant retains focus on costs
Databases23 Jul 2024 | 9
SAP system gives UK tax collector a £750B headache as clock ticks on support
Updated For now it's Capgemini to the rescue (again)
Databases23 Jul 2024 | 27
Unit4 ends support for research costing tool used to plan the Covid vaccine
Exclusive UK university users face migration path following plan to withdraw support for product some build £1M solutions around
Databases22 Jul 2024 | 10
Europe's largest council could face £12M manual audit bill after Oracle project disaster
Thank goodness for pen and paper. Re-implemented system might not arrive until March 2026, four years after initial roll-out
Public Sector18 Jul 2024 | 39
Mega-city's Oracle system won't have effective cash management until 2025
Birmingham, Europe's largest local authority, plans to reimplement software years after it replaced SAP
Databases17 Jul 2024 | 25
Latest MySQL release is underwhelming, say some DB experts
Updated Oracle's priorities may lie elsewhere but it is unfair to say all innovation can go in community edition, reckons analyst
Databases16 Jul 2024 | 13
Cold comfort to teachers who got paid late, but ERP software rollout had 'unrealistic' timeline
18 months late, overbudget... report finds council's SAP ERP rip 'n' replace with Unit4 had hidden complexity
Databases16 Jul 2024 | 49
Palantir, Oracle cosy up to offer Karp firm's tech across Big Red's cloud
Foundry and AI plaform available in OCI
Databases11 Jul 2024 | 2
Transformation chief leaves Asda amid Walmart divorce IT projects
After 28 years' service, Mark Simpson departs 'by mutual agreement'
Databases09 Jul 2024 | 8
Brit council gives Oracle another £10M for professional services amid ERP fallout
Birmingham struggles to get current version of Fusion fit for purpose
Public Sector08 Jul 2024 | 56
Third time was the charm for SingleStore in the cloud, CEO says
Apache Iceberg support makes it a good option for a transactional layer over data lakes, he tells The Register
Databases08 Jul 2024 | 2
Db2 is a story worth telling, even if IBM won't
Opinion Promise of AI features, but Big Blue won't reveal much more about next steps of its highly regarded relational database
Databases04 Jul 2024 | 58
What do CTOs hate most about GenAI? Tool changes that break stuff
With so many DB vendors to choose from, our vulture claws over the bewildering choices
Databases01 Jul 2024 | 4
AI query optimization in IBM's Db2 shows you can teach a tech dinosaur new tricks
The database Big Blue doesn't like to talk about gets makeover in November
Databases27 Jun 2024 | 41
OneHouse takes $35M to fight for Hudi in table format wars
After Databricks snaffled Iceberg-linked Tabular, CEO insists there are more than two horses in this race
Databases26 Jun 2024 |
SAP customers warned on hidden risks in the unofficial route to the cloud
But RISE with SAP can also be too rigid for some customers, Gartner says
Databases25 Jun 2024 | 1
Law firms seek investors' support in Teradata class action
Claim analytics and data platform biz misled investors about size of public cloud forecast
Databases17 Jun 2024 | 1
Asda IT staff shuffled off to TCS amid messy tech divorce from Walmart
Exclusive Infrastructure teams have 'eye on door' as SAP migration enters critical phase
Databases17 Jun 2024 | 89
Nearly 20% of running Microsoft SQL Servers have passed end of support
Exclusive That beige box running a server is easily forgotten ... until it goes wrong
Databases17 Jun 2024 | 68
How Apache Spark lit up the tech world and outshone its big data brethren
Interview El Reg queries author Matei Zaharia on a decade of the project
Databases14 Jun 2024 |
Early MySQL engineer questions whether Oracle is unintentionally killing off the open source database
Preference for proprietary features restricting open source MySQL adoption, says Peter Zaitsev
Databases11 Jun 2024 | 48
The Microsoft GA that wasn't: Analyst rips into availability of Copilot in Fabric
Torn between keynote and blog: Not all AI coding assistant's features appear available
Databases10 Jun 2024 | 4
More than a Joule required to power up enthusiasm for SAP's AI strategy
Customers remain cautious about adoption, while analysts warn of unforeseen costs
Databases07 Jun 2024 | 3
DuckDB promises greater stability with 1.0 release
In-process OLAP database flies the nest
Databases05 Jun 2024 |
Databricks' $1B Tabular buy raises questions around table format wars
Keeping things neutral will be harder, say critics, as tiny startup acquired
Databases05 Jun 2024 | 5
MongoDB loses nearly a quarter of its value after adjusting revenue forecasts
Document database company asking sales peeps to target workloads with 'higher growth potential'
Databases31 May 2024 | 8
Codd almighty! Has it been half a century of SQL already?
Feature The Reg talks to Donald Chamberlin, Michael Stonebraker and more about the legendary language
Databases31 May 2024 | 70
Teradata takes plunge into lakehouse waters, but not everyone is convinced
We have not changed our minds, the industry has evolved, data warehouse stalwart claims
Databases23 May 2024 |
Brit council fumbles Oracle Fusion launch, leaving SAP to die another day
More than four years after procurement began, authority has no go-live date
Databases23 May 2024 | 46
Private equity offer for MariaDB gets thumbsup from shareholders
From SPAC and back as 68% say yes
Databases21 May 2024 | 6
Microsoft Power BI users warned over pace of Fabric migration
Build Users given less than three months to move to the new platform for some services, analyst points out
Databases21 May 2024 | 7
Graph database shows Biden outspends Trump in social media ad war
But incumbent is mentioned a lot more in attack material
Databases17 May 2024 | 31
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