Late last month, Redmond announced two extensions to PostgreSQL, the open source relational database system with roots reaching back to the 1980s.

PostgreSQL implementation of document-oriented NoSQL datastore adopted under permissive MIT license The Linux Foundation on ...

The company started with the open-source relational database management system Postgres as a managed service across the three largest cloud platforms and has since added 10 other popular open ...

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, is announcing that DocumentDB-a fast-growing open source document database from Microsoft-has joined the ...

These open source databases implemented subsets of the features in the big relational databases, but they were rarely unique feature sets. However, when the biggest revolution in database technology ...

At Open Source Summit Europe 2025, the Linux Foundation unveiled projects and research spanning AI, sovereignty and developer ...

Versant unveiling follows Oracle effort A tale of dueling open source projects for object-relational mapping may be brewing within Eclipse, with similar proposals floated by Versant and Oracle.

Still, this goes to show the competitive pressure in the relational database market. Microsoft has to fend off both public cloud competitors, open source alternatives and other on-premises vendors.

A tale of dueling open-source projects for object-relational mapping may be brewing within Eclipse, with similar proposals floated by Versant Corp. and Oracle Corp. Versant plans to announce on ...