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The amount of data generated today boggles the mind — U.S. companies alone produce 2.5 quintillion bytes daily, enough to fill ten thousand Libraries of Congress in a year — and much of it is of the ...

MongoDB's growth is driven by Atlas, which saw a revenue share increase from 23% in 2019 to 70% in 2025, with ARPU growing at 20.54%. MongoDB ranks sixth overall in the database market but is the ...

NEW YORK – Databases are sexy as dry toast. Dwight Merriman admits as much, but there is a revolution afoot in a seminal tech sector that has been stagnant for decades. The Internet of Things is ...

MIT professor Mike Stonebraker has been at the forefront of database technology for more than 50 years. The former Turing Award winner invented the Ingres and Postgres databases and helped launch a ...

A subtle software flaw in Amazon's core database system, DynamoDB, triggered a massive, hours-long outage affecting thousands ...

Last week’s Amazon Web Services outage took down all sorts of apps and websites, revealing how fragile the internet is. Its ...

MySQL, the Swedish company that sells the open-source database of the same name, releases a version of its software for IBM's mainframe line. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...