The coolest database system companies of the 2026 Big Data 100 include ClickHouse, Couchbase, EDB, MariaDB, MongoDB, Neo4j, ...

Microsoft released its first full Linux distro: Azure Linux 4.0. Azure Linux ix split into Azure Container Linux and the virtual machine edition. Microsoft effectively admits that it's a de facto ...

An exploit has been published for a local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed “Copy Fail” that impacts Linux kernels released since 2017, allowing an unprivileged local attacker to gain root ...

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Azure database savings plans cut cloud costs across SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL and Cosmos DB. Unlike reservations, Azure savings plans offer cross-region, cross-service flexibility with simpler pricing.

An AWS engineer reported on April 3 that PostgreSQL throughput dropped to roughly half on Linux 7.0, with benchmark data tracing the cause to a deliberate kernel change that removed the PREEMPT_NONE ...

There is no doubt that Linux has come a long way in the last five years, thanks in large part to Valve opening the door to gaming with Proton. Linux has always been a capable operating system, but its ...

While vector databases still have many valid use cases, organizations including OpenAI are leaning on PostgreSQL to get things done. In a blog post on Thursday, OpenAI disclosed how it is using the ...

SQL Server 2025 reaches enterprise readiness with GA support on RHEL 10 and Ubuntu 24.04. Cumulative Update 1 improves SQL Server 2025 reliability, performance and security based on early feedback.

03. How to perform a network TCP port scan to locate an PostgreSQL Database 04. How to perform a brute-force attack to identify valid database credentials (logins & passwords) 05. How to check if a ...

Enterprises need data, and data needs to be stored, with a flexible, portable environment that scales from developers’ laptops to global clouds. That storage also needs to be able to run on any OS and ...

Microsoft SQL Server 2025 finally hit general availability today, following a private preview a year ago and a public preview back in May. That said, the AI-focused release is still in a public ...