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Databases are by no means an easy product category to understand. Many of the big players now offer free or "light" versions of their databases, but comparing them all is no easy task -- as we found ...

Oracle intends to release a free version of its database, a reaction to the growing competitive pressure from low-end open-source databases. The database heavyweight on Tuesday is expected to announce ...

This week is a listing of online databases that are absolutely free to anyone with a computer: • Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office. Land records going back to 1810 in public land states: ...

In addition to needing an operating system, some embedded systems will need a structure for organizing data. In this article I discuss various ways of storing and retrieving data. Where appropriate, I ...

What becomes a mighty oak starts as a tiny acorn. Software application development follows this same ageless pattern. And that’s the idea behind Oracle offering a new “Always Free” version of Oracle’s ...

Hoping to appeal to smaller businesses and fend off competition from open-source rivals, Oracle plans to release a free version of its database software. The company has not made it official yet, but ...