The open-access database will streamline various experiments and create a broader dialogue between scientists.

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Exitround gives potential acquirers access to a database of startups that are interested in or open to a sale.

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Google Scholar, the open source database used to identify published cases, is not a complete data base of state cases involving Shariah because as a search tool it allows retrieval only of those reported appellate and trial court level cases that are available through open sources.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: converter

Both Memcached, which accelerates existing relational databases like MySQL, and Redis, which is a complete, stand-alone database and acceleration solution, are open source technologies.

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The most popular open source database (with more than four million users) is made by a company called MySQL, which has been venture-backed since 2001.

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It sells database software which is also available in a free, widely used, open-source version.

ECONOMIST: Computing

Since 1998 Icann, a policy-making group, has controlled domain registration on the Net, logging new sites in an open database called Whois, but the data isn't verified, and even gobbledygook triggers no alarms.

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