The article chronicles half a century of database history, analyzing the rise and collapse of systems like Informix, Sybase, FoxPro, HBase, and dBase, while examining how Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM are adapting to cloud and AI, and forecasting the forces reshaping the future of data storage.
During the early 2000s, the database industry faced Y2K-driven robustness upgrades, intensified global rivalry among Oracle, IBM, Sybase and Informix, while Chinese university‑originated systems like Kingbase and DaMeng leveraged government backing and venture capital to begin challenging foreign dominance.
The Tencent Cloud TVP series chronicles China’s fifty‑year database evolution, from early banking deposit‑withdrawal systems and the demanding 1990s railway ticket OLTP challenge to the influx of global vendors, highlighting rapid market growth driven by national projects and foreshadowing the internet‑era big‑data opportunities.
The article traces MySQL’s origins from Monty Widenius’s early Unireg project through its rapid growth, acquisition by Sun and Oracle, and the emergence of MariaDB, highlighting how an open‑source, user‑focused ecosystem and the LAMP stack propelled MySQL to become the world’s most popular database.
This article chronicles the 30‑year dominance of relational databases, the challenges posed by object‑oriented and high‑concurrency workloads, and how four alternative data‑store families—Redis, MongoDB, Neo4j, and HBase/Cassandra—gave birth to the modern NoSQL movement.
The article recounts how Richard Hipp created SQLite—a tiny, fully embedded 900 KB database written in a single C file—that now powers billions of devices, and how his later Althttpd web server handles hundreds of thousands of requests daily, illustrating his prolific open‑source legacy.
This article traces the fifty‑year history of relational databases, from early storage systems and the IDS and CODASYL network model to Codd’s relational model, the rise of SQL, its standards, competitors, and the principles that have kept SQL dominant in modern data management.
This article traces MySQL's four‑decade history, its acquisition by Sun and Oracle, the rise of MariaDB as a compatible fork, and provides a practical guide to installing and using MariaDB with screenshots and tool recommendations.
This article recounts how Salvatore Sanfilippo, despite a decade of experience in traditional relational databases, abandoned conventional design principles to create Redis, an open‑source in‑memory NoSQL system that now powers major services worldwide.
This article traces the development of China's database sector from the 1950s Soviet‑inspired mainframes through the rise of OLTP, foreign database dominance, government‑backed research projects, and the emergence of modern cloud‑native solutions like PolarDB, OceanBase and TiDB, highlighting technical, economic and policy factors that shaped each decade.
This article chronicles the origins and growth of Oracle, the colorful personality of its founder Larry Ellison, the early development of relational databases, the fierce competition among IBM, Sybase, Borland and other vendors, and the later impact of open‑source and cloud‑computing trends on the database market.
This article traces the development of China's database sector from the early Soviet‑inspired computers of the 1950s through foreign‑technology influx in the 1980s and 1990s, the rise of domestic vendors, and the recent cloud‑native ecosystem, highlighting the challenges and opportunities for replacing legacy Oracle systems.
This article chronicles Monty Widenius’s journey from a teenage programmer in Helsinki to the creator of MySQL, detailing the database’s origins, open‑source philosophy, commercial licensing model, and its lasting impact on the global data‑management ecosystem.
