Oracle unveils first core Berkeley DB release
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(InfoWorld) - Oracle is releasing its first version of the core Berkeley DB embedded database since acquiring the software through its FebruaryÂ purchase of open-source developer Sleepycat Software. Oracle is due to make Berkeley DB release 4.5 generally available on Wednesday. The focus is around improving performance, availability, and ease of use, according to Rex Wang, vice president of embedded systems marketing at Oracle and Sleepycat's former vice president of marketing. The new functionality was already on the road map at Sleepycat, he said. First developed in 1991, Berkeley DB is the core version of the Sleepycat embedded database, but the open-source vendor alsoÂ began offering XMLÂ (extensible markup language) andÂ Java versions of its databaseÂ in recent years. Oracle already put out a new release of Berkeley DB Java Edition, version 3.0, in May and plans a refresh of Berkeley DB XML shortly, Wang said. New in Berkeley DB release 4.5 are the ability for users to upgrade or patch a replicated Berkeley DB without having to take the entire system down, multiversion concurrency controls to handle changes being made to the database by many users, and a replication framework to help developers build highly available systems. Oracle is actively looking at how to get Berkeley DB to work with the rest of its product portfolio, but has no news on that front as yet. Unlike other areas of its business, notably applications, where Oracle is looking to consolidate disparate products into a single code base, the vendor's approach to the embedded database market is rather different. "We offer customers a range of products to meet very different needs," Wang said. As well as Berkeley DB, Oracle has its TimesTen In-Memory Database and Oracle Database Lite 10g and the company can also embed its higher end Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Application Server 10g software. Berkeley DB is complementary to Oracle's other embedded databases, but differs in having no SQL (structured query language) layer and is able to store data in memory or on disk. There's a whole host of different organizations looking to embed databases in very different environments from cell phones to networking equipment to hosted applications. The beauty of embedded databases is that they're designed to run "unattended," without any need for management by database administrators, effectively disappearing from view into other applications, he added. Oracle'sÂ prime reason for acquiring SleepycatÂ was and remains the vendor's desire to gain more presence in the embedded database arena, Wang said. Earlier this week, open-source database vendor MySQL AB confirmed that it had discontinued support for Berkeley DB as one of its storage engines. "That was due to our request to them which they readily agreed to," Wang said. He doesn't believe there was a significant amount of customer use. "It was an interface that neither party was maintaining," Wang added. "For years, no work was done on the interface." Â
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InfoWorld - Startup company db4o&#160;bjects next week is releasing its object database, db4o, under an open source format, with the product now available either under the GPL via open source or commercially as embeddable software.
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(InfoWorld) - Oracle will release 46 patches on Tuesday for products including its Oracle Database 10g, Application Server, and E-Business Suite. Oracle Database will get 20 fixes, two of which patch vulnerabilities that could allow remote execution of code on the network without authentication. The most serious of the database vulnerabilities is ranked "medium" in severity, according to the Common Vulnerability Scoring System, used to rank the severity of security flaws. The E-Business Suite will get 14 patches, also for vulnerabilities that could be exploited over a network without a username and password. Three of the four patches for Oracle's Application Server fix problems that could also be exploited remotely. The remaining patches are for Oracle's Collaboration Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools, PeopleSoft Enterprise Customer Relationship Management and PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management. The fixes, along with the product versions affected, are listed in an Oracle advisory. OracleÂ released 37 patchesÂ in April, its previous round of software fixes. Â
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IBM (Quote, Chart) announced its first major database refresh in almost two years with new features from the company&#39;s autonomic computing vault.
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IBM on Monday will unveil free developer resources for Cloudscape, a small-footprint, Java-based database that the company recently contributed to the Apache Software Foundation as an open source project.
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Gets your retaliation in first In a pre-emptive strike against Oracle, database vendor MySQL has launched its first site-wide license and support package, pricing it the same as a single Oracle CPU database license.â¦
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Sybase Tuesday launched its strike in the cluster-database market, releasing Adaptive Server Enterprise Cluster Edition to compete with the likes of Oracle's Real Application Clusters.
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IBM next week will release a major revision of its DB2 database, providing fresh ammunition in the ongoing battle for supremacy in the database marketplace.
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Oracle unveiled an information lifecycle management tool today for users of its database.
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Alison Holloway has announced that there's a new version of the Zend Core for Oracle out on the streets and can be downloaded here.    Zend have just released a new version of Zend Core for Oracle, the prebuilt stack of Oracle Instant Client, Apache and PHP. It's version 1.5 and now has an optional installation of Apache 2.0.59. It used to automatically install Apache 2 whether you wanted it or not, but now you can use an existing web server, either Apache, IIS, or Oracle's HTTP Server.    It's now using PHP 5.1.6, the latest OCI8 extension (Oracle's PHP driver), and Oracle Instant Client. This stack has a native installer, and it's available on Linux, AIX, Solaris and Windows.    You can get complete details on the package from this page on the Zend webstite including highlights and the system requirements to get it up and running.
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In an effort to step up its approach to "unbreakable" databases, Oracle today announced its Database Vault technology can now be used in conjunction with its E-Business Suite.
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COMMENTARY -- In a press release issued yesterday, with the headline &quot;Sybase First to Provide Free Linux Enterprise-Class Database for Production Use,&quot; Sybase notes that it has &quot;deepened its commitment to the Linux community with the availability of the
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San Francisco, September 9: International Business Machines Corp late on Wednesday rolled out a new version of its database software aimed at users of Linux and Unix operating systems that it hopes will help the company take away market share from market
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InfoWorld - While Wednesday marked&#160;the official unveiling of Oracle&#39;s 11g database&#160;and a look at its new features, pricing and availability information was pretty thin on the ground. All the vendor would confirm is that the Linux version of 11g will ship this quarter, probably in August.
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Oracle releases update of its mobile database, which is used to connect to corporate information stored on Oracle database servers.
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Sybase Tuesday launched its strike in the cluster-database market, releasing Adaptive Server Enterprise Cluster Edition to compete with the likes of Oracle&#39;s Real Application Clusters.Sybase&#39;s offering is aimed at IT shops that require high availability from their datacenters. It uses shared-disk clustering, where a number of ASE server instances is grouped into a cluster seen as a single system managing the same set of data. This allows application workloads to be balanced among the instances. The software automatically migrates connections if a node fails, according to the company.Noel Yuhanna, a Forrester Research analyst covering database technologies, said Sybase has made a wise move.&quot;They&#39;ve realized they need to innovate to stay competitive and they&#39;re doing that,&quot; he said. &quot;I think it&#39;s a good move and makes them comparable in certain situations with Oracle RAC.&quot;While most companies employ some type of failover technology in their data centers, it may take effect in minutes, not seconds, Yuhanna said. &quot;Companies who want it to happen really fast, that&#39;s when shared-disk clustering can really help,&quot; he said.&quot;It&#39;s only about five to 10 percent of the applications in an organization that would really need that up-to-the second [performance],&quot; Yuhanna added.Sybase hasn&#39;t necessarily surpassed Oracle&#39;s capabilities, according to Yuhanna. Its new product might be more suitable for &quot;smaller environments, or those that are only focused around Linux and Solaris,&quot; he said, adding that word hasn&#39;t yet circled back from customers regarding the product&#39;s performance.David Jonker, senior product marketing manager in the ASE group at Sybase, said the company worked with 12 large companies on a technology preview version of the software. He declined to name them, and said none had agreed to speak to the media.ASE Cluster Edition is compatible with systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 (x86_64); Solaris 9 and 10 on Sparc (64-bit); and SUSE Linux 9 and 10 (x86_64). Sybase did not release pricing information.
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Oracle Corp. will release 46 patches on Tuesday for products including its Oracle Database 10g, Application Server and E-Business Suite.