Yugabyte raises $48 million to advance adoption of its open source SQL database based on an extensible document archiecture.

The move creates the first vendor-neutral open source alternative to MongoDB that has the potential to save enterprises money ...

But the cloud and SQL do not mix well, and multiple efforts are now underway to offer viable alternatives to the venerable database.

As businesses stampede to cloud computing, many wouldn't mind finding less-expensive database alternatives. And Amazon is the less expensive, cost-cutting king of the cloud world.

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