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• Node.js vs PHP: An epic battle for developer mindshare

  It’s a classic Hollywood plot: the battle between two old friends who went separate ways.

• PHP vs. Node.js: An epic battle for developer mind share

  It's a classic Hollywood plot: the battle between two old friends who went separate ways. Often the friction begins when one pal sparks an interest in what had always been the other pal's unspoken domain. In the programming language version of this movie, it's the introduction of Node.js that turns the buddy flick into a grudge match: PHP and JavaScript, two partners who once ruled the Internet together but now duke it out for the mind share of developers.

• re:Cap of AWS re:Invent: 10 cool new Amazon Cloud features

  At Amazon Web Services' third annual re:Invent cloud computing conference the market's leading infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) public provider revealed a variety of new cloud service features. Here's a recap of AWS's announcements from re:Invent 2014.

• Yelp speeds database access with flash storage

  Yelp will use flash memory to speed up its database of community reviews of restaurants and other local businesses.

• SkySQL aims for high-availability database clusters with MariaDB Enterprise

  Finnish software vendor SkySQL has launched the first version of MariaDB Enterprise, a subscription product which combines the MariaDB database with clustering software.

• SQL to NoSQL: A match made in heaven for eHarmony.com

  For online relationship match-making site eHarmony, pairing up two people to potentially spend the rest of their lives together is no simple task.

• Dead database walking: MySQL's creator on why the future belongs to MariaDB

  It's fair to say that MySQL creator Michael "Monty" Widenius is not a fan of Oracle. When the company announced in April 2009 that it was purchasing Sun, Widenius saw a bleak future ahead for the (still) wildly popular open source database, which Sun had snapped up in 2008.

• It's an unstructured world and Rackspace wants to play in it

  Databases and the information in them used to be simple, but not any more. Not all data fits into neat spreadsheets and SQL databases. Hence, the rise of NoSQL databases to handle this mass of unstructured data.

• Fedora, openSUSE ditch MySQL, in a major database shake-up

  Two major open-source projects, Fedora and openSUSE, are planning to ditch the venerable Oracle MySQL database framework and adopt MariaDB instead.

• A vendor-independent comparison of NoSQL databases: Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB, Riak

  In 2010, when the world became enchanted by the capabilities of cloud systems and new databases designed to serve them, a group of researchers from Yahoo decided to look into NoSQL. They developed the YCSB framework to assess the performance of new tools and find the best cases for their use. The results were published in the paper, "Benchmarking Cloud Serving Systems with YCSB."

• 5 tech pros companies want to hire

  Seasoned networking pros are in an enviable position, according to Robert Half Technology. The tech staffing firm includes systems and networking engineers among the top five tech professionals that companies are currently looking to hire.

• MySQL hits new development milestone

  Oracle is making the open-source MySQL database more stable and feature-rich through a shift in development philosophy, MySQL Vice President of Engineering Tomas Ulin said during a keynote address Monday at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco.

• MySQL.com hacked to serve malware

  The website for the open-source MySQL database was hacked and used to serve malware to visitors Monday.

• Oracle further commercializes MySQL database

  Oracle has added additional commercial extensions to the enterprise edition of its open-source MySQL database, further differentiating it from the community version available to anyone at no charge.

• Skytap automates cloud deployments

  Skytap, a provider of cloud automation software, this week unveiled orchestration and configuration products designed to enable enterprises to easily create virtual environments in the cloud.