When Oracle recently launched a free version of its autonomous database, it ignited tens of thousands of sign-ups. These developers help us understand the huge reception.

Ancestry.com has released a new free database of tens of thousands of old newspaper records about formerly enslaved people. The company hopes it will help fill historical gaps for Black Americans.

For answers, we reviewed six popular free or open source database products: Microsoft SQL Server Express, PostgreSQL, Oracle’s MySQL, MariaDB, Apache Derby and Firebird SQL.

Sybase says its free database will attract customers away from MySQL and PostgreSQL, but the terms mean it is more suitable for development than production Written by Ingrid Marson, Contributor ...

Analyst firm Hydrasight research director John Brand believes even if free databases are now available from the tier-1 vendors, the commercial database is unlikely to disappear completely. “There are ...

Sybase is providing a free licence for ASE Express Edition for Linux, but is not releasing the source code of the database. Jacobson believes that releasing the source code is not as important as ...

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David Jacobson, Sybase’s senior director of database and tools marketing, said the company is releasing ASE Express for free in hopes of attracting customers who will later upgrade to Sybase’s ...

The 2005 family includes a low-end database called SQL Server Express that, like Oracle’s 10g Express, is free for limited production use. Oracle now has an alternative for customers considering ...