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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Larry Ellison probably didn’t sleep well last night. Same for his buddy Mark Hurd. I can picture the two of them sitting in a locked office at Oracle’s headquarters, earlier in the day, wringing their ...

While the recently closed acquisition of Qualtrics provided many of the headlines at SAPPHIRE last week, the fact that SAP remains fully committed to HANA had the most immediate significance. The ...