(Relational DataBase Management System) See relational database and DBMS.
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- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Greenplum pushes envelope with MapReduce and parallelism enhancements to its extreme-scale data offering
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- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
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- Discussion threads 2008-09-09
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- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- When equivalence is the wrong question
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- Discussion threads 2008-08-12
- RDBMS market reached $18.8 bln in 2007
- 2007 was a year that saw continued steady growth in the relational database management systems RDBMS market, with signal improvements on the part of several of the top five vendors in this space. The RDBMS market is estimated to have grown by 12.6% from $16.7 bln in 2006 to $18.8...
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Sybase rides growing database business into mobility innovation, says Chen at user conference
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- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- Everywhere I look, I see Clouds
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- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Global RDBMS market: Oracle - 44.3%, IBM - 21%, Microsoft - 15.8%
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- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Continuous prototyping
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- Build your own Google
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- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- An Oracle nose job
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- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Technology and the costs of change
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- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- N-Tier: Rube Goldberg meets Wintel Scalability
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- Discussion threads 2008-05-05
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- Discussion threads 2008-04-28
- Oracle preps critical database patches
- Oracle has announced details of its own patch Tuesday--April 15--with 17 security fixes covering the company's flagship database and 41 patches collectively. Oracle said in an advisory that the patches cover "multiple security vulnerabilities" across its products. Among the notable products: Oracle Application Server gets three security...
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- Google App Engine: When will Microsoft field a competitor?
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- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- SQL Server Advanced Protection and Fast Recovery with Dell EqualLogic Auto-Snapshot Manager
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- White papers 2008-03-12
- H-Store: Complete destruction of the old DBMS order?
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- Discussion threads 2008-02-20
- Using Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition as a Persistence Manager for the Google Web Toolkit
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- White papers 2008-02-01
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