The system is based on server hardware from Sun Microsystems, which Oracle is in the process of acquiring for $7.4 billion. That apparently leaves Hewlett-Packard, which provided the hardware for the ...

Oracle has launched a high-end database and storage system that it co-developed with Sun Microsystems, the companies’ first joint product since announcing their plans to merge almost five months ago.

A new survey of 421 data managers and professionals affiliated with the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) members finds that while most companies have well-established data warehouse systems, ...

The 1990s and 2000s saw the rise of the relational databases for transaction processing (OLTP) as well as analytical processing (OLAP). As the volume and variety of data explodes in the 2010s, ...

MySQL, the open source relational database that came to Oracle through the Sun Microsystems acquisition, originated as a relatively simple relational database that was known for one task: transaction ...