In an enterprise technology world featuring too much hot air and not enough world-class technology, SAP has done an excellent job spreading the idea that its 5-year-old HANA database delivers ...

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SAP spokesman James Dever downplayed Ellison’s remarks, saying in an email that HANA has seen a faster relative growth rate than Exadata, and that it offers customers a broader range of capabilities.

Oracle on Thursday rolled out an updated version of its TimesTen In-Memory Database, which is a key component of its upcoming Exalytics appliance as well as a competitor to SAP’s HANA platform.

While SAP has made no secret of its desire to lure customers running Oracle databases over to its own HANA in-memory platform, any doubt that Oracle would fight back has been erased. Oracle CEO Larry ...

When Tom Cruise's character in Top Gun exclaimed "I feel the need, the need for speed", you'd be forgiven for mistaking it for a soundbite from a CIO discussing their transactional databases. Whether ...

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SAP’s technology chief has given a strong rebuttal to a recent presentation by an Oracle executive that was critical of SAP’s HANA in-memory database, saying it is full of “falsehoods.” The ...

At Oracle OpenWorld 2013, the annual event that kicked off yesterday in San Francisco, California, CEO Larry Ellison revealed details on the long-awaited in-memory offering, an update that received ...