A modestly priced version of Actian's high-performance Vectorwise database aims to help smaller organisations into the world of Big Data.

Quest Software's free Toad for Cloud Databases makes it easier for database professionals and developers to work with cloud databases.

  Users of FileMaker's Bento database have downloaded a million templates.  

The term 'big data' is generally associated with science and a very few specialised areas of business. But one database company is predicting it will find a home in a much broader range of activities.

Kroll Ontrack claims it has improved its success rate for recovering from Oracle data losses.

Sage might be platform agnostic, but its Australian customers aren't.

A new SQL injection attack has compromised tens of thousands of URLs according to a security vendor. The attack was initially used to push rogue AV malware.

McAfee is poised to acquire Sentrigo, a provider of database security and intrusion protection systems.

Bento 4, the personal database system for Mac OS X, delivers several new features requested by users, and for the first time is available via the Mac App Store as well as traditional channels.

Liberal US shock-blog Daily Kos gained legal access to the database used by electronic voting machines produced by Sequoia Voting Systems. The Daily Kos sensationally claimed the database violated Federal voting law. A closer examination gives a different story.