[Excerpted from "Protecting Databases From Web Applications," a new report published today in Dark Reading's Database Security Tech Center.] Web applications are rich targets for attackers. Available ...

Immortalized by “Little Bobby Drop Tables” in XKCD 327, SQL injection (SQLi) was first discovered in 1998, yet continues to plague web applications across the internet. Even the OWASP Top Ten lists ...

I recently had the opportunity to see a demo of a product coming out in early 2008 called Blist (pronounced like “bliss” with a “t” at the end) that will take on DabbleDB and Trackvia by giving users ...

NorthScale, Inc., a Silicon Valley software startup, has launched with the introduction of data infrastructure software optimized for the data management requirements of web applications and cloud ...

Java devs looking to explore or work in data science may need another language up their sleeves. Python and R are common Java alternatives for data science. Continue Reading ...

When it comes to web applications, midsize to large businesses are looking to cloud databases to help them gain efficiencies and, ultimately, gain a competitive edge over their market rivals.

Drizzle is a newly announced fork of the open source MySQL project. The developers of the project are taking MySQL back to its roots as a light-weight web application database by removing many of the ...