Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Computer Associates International plans to make its Ingres database an open-source product and to collaborate with open-source projects JBoss, Zope and Plone. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

An open source database is just a regular database that’s distributed with its source code. Users can read, revise, and extend the software freely, although few use these opportunities. The most ...

Many organizations choose open source databases to support a great customer experience. However, most open source databases are built on off-the-shelf CPU-based systems and are highly inefficient at ...

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 ...

Open source software is a lot of things to a lot of people. For some people -- engineers, mostly -- it's a way to work on their passion, be involved in a community, and give something back to the ...