DB Weekly

Issue archive

#360 All good things... 2021-06-25

#359 The largest database company investment ever? 2021-06-18

#358 A bumper collection of our favorite data tools 2021-06-11

#357 Interesting datasets to play with 2021-06-04

#356 Immudb - the world’s fastest immutable database? 2021-05-28

#355 PlanetScale unveils their new MySQL-based database service 2021-05-21

#354 Gartner on the future of data management 2021-05-14

#353 Loading remote SQLite databases from web pages 2021-05-07

#352 Compiling logic to SQL 2021-04-30

#351 The Redis 7.0 roadmap 2021-04-23

#350 What if we used SQL in front-end development? 2021-04-16

#349 Andy Pavlo on self-driving databases 2021-04-09

#348 The second item is a must read 2021-04-02

#347 Comparing Aurora Serverless and Fauna 2021-03-26

#346 A big SQLite release 2021-03-19

#345 Let's improve the UX and DX of databases 2021-03-12

#344 A Swiss Army knife for data 2021-03-05

#343 Uber's horizontal evolution of 'schemaless' 2021-02-26

#342 How Spotify joined up 1 petabyte of data for Wrapped 2020 2021-02-19

#341 Lots of fantastic re:Invent database talks 2021-02-12

#340 10 things a developer hates about SQL 2021-02-05

#339 A 'vector database' system 2021-01-29

#338 The servers powering Let's Encrypt's database 2021-01-22

#337 Have the tables turned on NoSQL? 2021-01-15

#336 Postgres and SQLite's prolific progeny 2021-01-08

#335 It's the end of the year as we know it 2020-12-18

#334 The database corners that get cut first 2020-12-11

#333 AWS's move to get SQL Server users on to PostgreSQL 2020-12-04

#332 DynamoDB gets SQL..ish 2020-11-27

#331 Elasticsearch can now directly search snapshots 2020-11-20

#330 SQLite's 2020 status report 2020-11-13

#329 🤖 Self driving databases 2020-11-06

#328 An animation of the most popular databases since 2006 2020-10-30

#327 Blockchain graph databases, sending MIDI with SQL, and SQLite's graph future 2020-10-23

#326 VisiData 2.0, an open source multitool for tabular data 2020-10-16

#325 Can Mean Girls explain the Raft consensus algorithm? 2020-10-09

#324 Amazon's time series database goes GA 2020-10-02

#323 Postgres 13, TimescaleDB sustainability, and battleships in SQL 2020-09-25

#322 Watch how GitLab upgraded their production database 2020-09-18

#321 Explore Carnegie Mellon's 'database of databases' 2020-09-11

#320 The history of the byte, ArangoDB 3.7, and Oracle's MySQL service 2020-09-04

#319 EBS's new faster volume type, Redis Labs becomes a unicorn, and the beauty of TTL indexes 2020-08-28

#318 SQLite now goes up to quarter of a petabyte 2020-08-21

#317 Oracle steps on to MongoDB's turf with Autonomous JSON Database 2020-08-14

#316 How human gene names are confusing Excel 2020-08-07

#315 MongoDB 4.4, migrating 40TB of data in SQL Server, and SQL styling best practices 2020-07-31

#314 Apache Cassandra 4.0 beta, portable large scale data analysis, and RavenDB 5.0 2020-07-24

#313 BigQuery goes cross-cloud / Predictive queries / R's resurgence 2020-07-17

#312 A Web-based SQL editor/sandbox you can run in-house 2020-07-10

#311 AWS RDS Proxy now available, and Redis's creator takes a bow 2020-07-03

#310 No code, lots of rows, and Twitch plays CockroachDB 2020-06-26

#309 Spark 3.0, TiDB 4.0, and HSBC goes all in on MongoDB 2020-06-19

#308 MongoDB 4.4, SQLite for Jupyter, and more funding for Couchbase 2020-06-12

#307 🎉 SQLite turns 20 years old 2020-06-05

#306 New SQLite, new MemSQL, and the trouble with databases. 2020-05-29

#305 A chat with SQLite's creator, Jepsen on MongoDB 4.2.6, and RedisConf videos 2020-05-22

#304 So much enterprise, it could be Star Trek 2020-05-15

#303 TileDB 2.0, Scylla 4.0, and CockroachDB raises extra funds 2020-05-08

#302 Redis 6.0 released 2020-05-01

#301 Things that more developers should know about databases 2020-04-24

#300 Are Object Stores Starting to Look Like Databases? 2020-04-17

#299 Intelligence, SIMD, and graphs: the future of databases? 2020-04-10

#298 So how fast can a fake Redis on ScyllaDB be? 2020-04-03

#297 Offbeat databases and a new full text search system 2020-03-27

#296 Some ways of calculating Pi with SQL 2020-03-20

#295 memcached 1.6.0 Released 2020-03-13

#294 Five ways to better understand SQL by adding optional parentheses 2020-03-06

#293 CouchDB 3.0, recursive SQL queries, and a jellyfish-inspired database 2020-02-28

#292 Data warehouse + data lake = lakehouse? 2020-02-21

#291 The what, why, and when of NoSQL single-table design 2020-02-14

#290 Neo4j 4.0 Released: The Popular Graph Database 2020-02-07

#289 OLAP cubes, Apache Druid, and adding SQL to Apache Pinot 2020-01-31

#288 SQLite gains generated column support 2020-01-24

#287 Data sharding strategies for building distributed SQL databases 2020-01-17

#286 MySQL was DB-Engines' DBMS of 2019 2020-01-10

#285 A bumper sized 2019 roundup 2019-12-20

#284 SQL's umbrella continues to grow 2019-12-13

#283 Amazon launches a managed Cassandra service 2019-12-06

#282 SQL tops US employers' lists of in-demand tech skills 2019-11-29

#281 ksqlDB, an event streaming database for the new SQL generation 2019-11-22

#280 Modern Data Practice and the SQL Tradition 2019-11-15

#279 SQL Server 2019 now generally available 2019-11-08

#278 Microsoft Access is here to stay 2019-11-01

#277 Three database podcast episodes to check out 2019-10-25

#276 Amazon says bye to Oracle.. mostly 2019-10-18

#275 Alibaba takes TPC's database benchmarking crown.. for now 2019-10-11

#274 How SQL has evolved in the 21st century 2019-10-04

#273 A comparison of different database types 2019-09-27

#272 GQL, the graph database world's answer to SQL? 2019-09-20

#271 Amazon Quantum Ledger Database now available 2019-09-13

#270 Predictive databases.. a new category of database? 2019-09-06

#269 What happened to Hadoop? 2019-08-30

#268 Bringing SQL to DynamoDB, Percona to Postgres, and NoSQL to the 'edge' 2019-08-23

#267 MongoDB 4.2 and AWS Lake Formation both GA 2019-08-16

#266 NVIDIA unveils a direct path between storage and GPUs for data science workloads 2019-08-09

#265 PartiQL, a new query language to keep on your radar 2019-08-02

#264 PostgreSQL grabs a lifetime achievement award from O'Reilly 2019-07-26

#263 A new scripting language for Redis 2019-07-19

#262 The largest file transfer in history? 2.9 petabytes 2019-07-12

#261 DuckDB, it's like 'SQLite for analytics' 2019-07-05

#260 Exploring several ways to process 25TB of data 2019-06-28

#259 Migrating to AWS Aurora with zero downtime 2019-06-21

#258 MySQL, still the most popular open source database? 2019-06-14

#257 The open source database licensing dilemma rolls on 2019-06-07

#256 Assessing your options for real-time message buses 2019-05-31

#255 ZetaSQL, a SQL parser and analyzer framework from Google 2019-05-24

#254 Huawei steps into the enterprise database market with an 'AI-backed' database 2019-05-17

#253 Can we do better than SQL? 2019-05-10

#252 Microsoft is taking Azure SQL to the edge (and Arm) 2019-05-03

#251 AWS RDS now supports per-second billing, but.. 2019-04-26

#250 SQLite 3.28.0, InfluxDB, and an intelligent knowledge graph database 2019-04-19

#249 The first alpha of EdgeDB, an interesting new database system 2019-04-12

#248 A fantastic white-paper summarizing the modern database market 2019-04-05

#247 Was MongoDB ever the right choice? 2019-03-29

#246 A focus on the role of GPUs in the database world 2019-03-22

#245 AWS packages up its own distribution of Elasticsearch 2019-03-15

#244 How Apache Solr and MongoDB Compare 2019-03-08

#243 A database that structures and indexes itself? 2019-03-01

#242 An update on Redis developments in 2019 2019-02-22

#241 SQL is still one of the most valuable skills to have 2019-02-15

#240 Understanding database sharding 2019-02-08

#239 Looking inside Uber’s GPU-powered open source, real-time analytics engine 2019-02-01

#238 Microsoft acquires a PostgreSQL scaling company 2019-01-25

#237 New SQL features SQLite gained in 2018 2019-01-18

#236 Amazon unveils a new MongoDB-compatible database 2019-01-11

#235 Our 10 most popular database links of 2018 2019-01-03

#234 It's the final newsletter of 2018 2018-12-21

#233 Advanced Design Patterns for DynamoDB 2018-12-14

#232 Using Elasticsearch as the main data store in an ETL pipeline 2018-12-07

#231 The latest from AWS re:Invent 2018 2018-11-30

#230 Unveiling Elasticsearch 6.5, PipelineDB 1.0, and RedisGraph 1.0 2018-11-16

#229 Will GraphQL Become a Standard for the New Data Economy? 2018-11-09

#228 Neo4j funding, MongoDB alternatives, and exploring Git repos with SQL 2018-11-02

#227 Oracle 18c XE, PipelineDB 1.0 and Uber's big data platform 2018-10-25

#226 Redis 5 and PostgreSQL 11 Released 2018-10-19

#225 A business-heavy week for the database industry 2018-10-12

#224 Redis Speeds Towards a Multi-Model Future 2018-10-05

#223 Celebrating 25 Years of SQL Server 2018-09-28

#222 Google Cloud Inference API: To Analyze Large Scale Time-Series Data 2018-09-21

#221 TimescaleDB 1.0: An Enterprise-Ready Time-Series Database 2018-09-14

#220 An Introduction to Druid, Interactive Analytics at Big Scale 2018-09-07

#219 Litetree, an experimental way to bring Git-like branching to SQLite 2018-08-31

#218 Redis to Remain BSD Licensed 2018-08-24

#217 SQLite 3.25 To Support Window Functions 2018-08-17

#216 Amazon Aurora Serverless MySQL Generally Available 2018-08-10

#215 Inside Fortnite's Massive Data Analytics Pipeline 2018-08-03

#214 Now you can do machine learning with SQL in Google BigQuery 2018-07-27

#213 A Technical Overview of Azure Cosmos DB 2018-07-20

#212 The Big News in Databases from Summer 2018 2018-07-13

#211 How Facebook migrated 'Messenger' storage to optimize performance 2018-07-06

#210 A One Size Fits All Database Doesn't Fit Anyone 2018-06-29

#209 MySQL High Availability at GitHub 2018-06-22

#208 Elasticsearch 6.3.0 Released, Gains SQL Support 2018-06-15

#207 Talks from RedisConf 2018 2018-06-08

#206 Amazon's Neptune Graph Database Generally Available 2018-06-01

#205 MariaDB's open source alternative to enterprise databases 2018-05-25

#204 TimescaleDB vs MongoDB for storing time-series data 2018-05-18

#203 #203: SQLite to Gain 'UPSERT' Functionality 2018-05-11

#202 TiDB 2.0 Released: A Go-Powered Analytics Database 2018-05-04

#201 Google's BigQuery Gaining Steam As Cloud Warehouse Wars Heat Up 2018-04-27

#200 FoundationDB goes Open Source, MySQL 8 Arrives 2018-04-20

#199 #199: An Introduction to EdgeDB 2018-04-13

#198 CockroachDB 2.0, ETL vs ELT, and GDPR Compliance 2018-04-06

#197 Does Graph Database Success Hang on Query Languages? 2018-03-30

#196 Breaking the trillion-rows-per-second barrier with MemSQL 2018-03-23

#195 MySQL and SQL Server are the most popular databases in use.. 2018-03-16

#194 A tool to translate SQL queries between dialects, and some other great releases 2018-03-09

#193 #193: How both open source and GPUs are shaping database technology 2018-03-02

#192 #192: MongoDB 4.0 to get ACID transaction support 2018-02-23

#191 #191: Which Programming Language Is Best for Big Data? 2018-02-16

#190 #190: RavenDB 4.0 Released 2018-02-09

#189 #189: How Netflix Scale Their Time Series Data Storage Architecture 2018-02-02

#188 #188: It's About Time For Time Series Databases 2018-01-26

#187 #187: SQL Keys in Depth 2018-01-19

#186 #186: How 'Meltdown' and 'Spectre' Will Impact Analytics 2018-01-12

#185 New databases and the biggest releases of 2017 2017-12-22

#184 #184: Big Data Trends That Drove 2017 2017-12-15

#183 #183: The Push for Data Modernization Today 2017-12-08

#182 Amazon Aurora Serverless: Databases on Demand 2017-12-01

#181 #181: Elasticsearch 6.0.0 Released 2017-11-17

#180 #180: MongoDB 3.6 Released 2017-11-10

#179 #179: What SQL's Co-Creator Sees in NoSQL 2017-11-03

#178 #178: TileDB, a Multi-Dimensional Array Storage System 2017-10-27

#177 #177: TiDB 1.0 - A Distributed NewSQL Database for Analytics 2017-10-20

#176 #176: Scaling the Relational Database with NewSQL 2017-10-13

#175 #175: Ten Cool SQL Optimisations 2017-10-06

#174 #174: Why SQL Is Beating NoSQL 2017-09-29

#173 #173: Introducing TigerGraph - A Native Parallel Graph Database 2017-09-22

#172 #172: The Weight of Relational Databases - Time for Multi-Model? 2017-09-15

#171 #171: Jepsen Offers System-Wide Approach to Testing Databases at Scale 2017-09-08

#170 #170: JOIN Elimination - An Essential Optimization for Advanced SQL Usage 2017-09-01

#169 #169: A Guide to Writing Better SQL Queries 2017-08-25

#168 #168: How Hardware Drives The Shape Of Databases To Come 2017-08-18

#167 #167: TimescaleDB, DynamoDB, Presto and Zeppelin 2017-08-11

#166 #166: How To Write Better SQL Queries 2017-08-04

#165 #165: Eliminating the Database for Higher Availability 2017-07-28

#164 #164: Redis 4.0 GA Released 2017-07-21

#163 #163: Do We Need Specialized Graph Databases? 2017-07-14

#162 #162: How Spanner Evolved Into a SQL System 2017-07-07

#161 #161: How Yelp Migrated to Elasticsearch 2017-06-30

#160 #160: A JSON type for Redis, SQLite indexes, and Solr vs Elasticsearch 2017-06-23

#159 #159: What's New in SQL:2016 2017-06-16

#158 This week's database news, issue 158 2017-06-09

#157 #157: A Comparison of Advanced, Modern Cloud Databases 2017-06-02

#156 #156: Squeezing Performance from SQLite with Google's 'Room' 2017-05-26

#155 #155: Google Spanner: Becoming a SQL System 2017-05-19

#154 #154: MapD Open Sources Its GPU-Powered Database 2017-05-12

#153 #153: SQL Is 43 Years Old, 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today 2017-05-05

#152 #152: What You Need To Know About SQL's 'GROUP BY' 2017-04-28

#151 #151: The Top Features Coming to SQL Server 2017 2017-04-21

#150 #150: DB Fiddle - A Web based SQL database playground 2017-04-14

#149 This week's database news, issue 149 2017-04-07

#148 This week's database news, issue 148 2017-03-31

#147 This week's database news, issue 147 2017-03-24

#146 This week's database news, issue 146 2017-03-17

#145 This week's database news, issue 145 2017-03-10

#144 This week's database news, issue 144 2017-03-03

#143 This week's database news, issue 143 2017-02-24

#142 Google Cloud Spanner / Is Postgres good enough? / MS goes after MongoDB 2017-02-17

#141 RethinkDB lives on / A 'serverless' database / MongoDB security testing tool 2017-02-10

#140 This week's database news, issue 140 2017-02-03

#139 This week's database news, issue 139 2017-01-27

#138 This week's database news, issue 138 2017-01-20

#137 This week's database news, issue 137 2017-01-13

#136 This week's database news, issue 136 2017-01-06

#135 The best of DB Weekly in 2016 2016-12-22

#134 This week's database news, issue 134 2016-12-16

#133 This week's database news, issue 133 2016-12-12

#132 This week's database news, issue 132 2016-12-02

#131 This week's database news, issue 131 2016-11-18

#130 This week's database news, issue 130 2016-11-11

#129 This week's database news, issue 129 2016-11-04

#128 This week's database news, issue 128 2016-10-28

#127 This week's database news, issue 127 2016-10-21

#126 This week's database news, issue 126 2016-10-14

#125 This week's database news, issue 125 2016-10-07

#124 This week's database news, issue 124 2016-09-30

#123 This week's database news, issue 123 2016-09-23

#122 This week's database news, issue 122 2016-09-16

#121 This week's database news, issue 121 2016-09-09

#120 This week's database news, issue 120 2016-09-02

#119 This week's database news, issue 119 2016-08-26

#118 The test one with the masthead 2004-09-16

#117 Where the DB market goes from here, plus a new data structure server 2016-08-12

#116 This week's database news, issue 116 2016-08-05

#115 This week's database news, issue 115 2016-07-29

#114 This week's database news, issue 114 2016-07-22

#113 This week's database news, issue 113 2016-07-15

#112 This week's database news, issue 112 2016-07-08

#111 This week's database news, issue 111 2016-07-01

#110 This week's database news, issue 110 2016-06-23

#109 This week's database news, issue 109 2016-06-17

#108 This week's database news, issue 108 2016-06-09

#107 This week's database news, issue 107 2016-06-02

#106 This week's database news, issue 106 2016-05-26

#105 This week's database news, issue 105 2016-05-19

#104 This week's database news, issue 104 2016-05-12

#103 This week's database news, issue 103 2016-05-05

#102 This week's database news, issue 102 2016-04-28

#101 This week's database news, issue 101 2016-04-21

#100 This week's database news, issue 100 2016-04-14

#99 This week's database news, issue 99 2016-04-07

#98 This week's database news, issue 98 2016-04-01

#97 This week's database news, issue 97 2016-03-24

#96 This week's database news, issue 96 2016-03-18

#95 This week's database news, issue 95 2016-03-11

#94 This week's database news, issue 94 2016-03-04

#93 This week's database news, issue 93 2016-02-26

#92 This week's database news, issue 92 2016-02-19

#91 This week's database news, issue 91 2016-02-12

#90 This week's database news, issue 90 2016-02-05

#89 This week's database news, issue 89 2016-01-29

#88 This week's database news, issue 88 2016-01-22

#87 This week's database news, issue 87 2016-01-15

#86 This week's database news, issue 86 2016-01-08

#85 A 2015 Database News Roundup 2015-12-31

#84 This week's database news, issue 84 2015-12-18

#83 This week's database news, issue 83 2015-12-11

#82 This week's database news, issue 82 2015-12-04

#81 This week's database news, issue 81 2015-11-27

#80 This week's database news, issue 80 2015-11-20

#79 This week's database news, issue 79 2015-11-13

#78 This week's database news, issue 78 2015-11-06

#77 This week's database news, issue 77 2015-10-30

#76 This week's database news, issue 76 2015-10-23

#75 This week's database news, issue 75 2015-10-16

#74 This week's database news, issue 74 2015-10-09

#73 This week's database news, issue 73 2015-10-02

#72 This week's database news, issue 72 2015-09-25

#71 This week's database news, issue 71 2015-09-18

#70 This week's database news, issue 70 2015-09-10

#69 This week's database news, issue 69 2015-08-28

#68 This week's database news, issue 68 2015-08-21

#67 This week's database news, issue 67 2015-08-14

#66 This week's database news, issue 66 2015-08-08

#65 This week's database news, issue 65 2015-07-31

#64 This week's database news, issue 64 2015-07-24

#63 This week's database news, issue 63 2015-07-10

#62 This week's database news, issue 62 2015-06-19

#61 This week's database news, issue 61 2015-06-05

#60 This week's database news, issue 60 2015-05-29

#59 This week's database news, issue 59 2015-05-22

#58 This week's database news, issue 58 2015-05-15

#57 This week's database news, issue 57 2015-05-01

#56 This week's database news, issue 56 2015-04-24

#55 This week's database news, issue 55 2015-04-17

#54 This week's database news, issue 54 2015-04-10

#53 This week's database news, issue 53 2015-03-27

#52 This week's database news, issue 52 2015-03-20

#51 This week's database news, issue 51 2015-03-14

#50 This week's database news, issue 50 2015-03-06

#49 This week's database news, issue 49 2015-02-27

#48 This week's database news, issue 48 2015-02-20

#47 This week's database news, issue 47 2015-02-13

#46 This week's database news, issue 46 2015-01-30

#45 This week's database news, issue 45 2015-01-23

#44 This week's database news, issue 44 2015-01-16

#43 This week's database news, issue 43 2014-12-19

#42 This week's database news, issue 42 2014-12-12

#41 This week's database news, issue 41 2014-12-05

#40 This week's database news, issue 40 2014-11-28

#39 This week's database news, issue 39 2014-11-21

#38 This week's database news, issue 38 2014-11-14

#37 This week's database news, issue 37 2014-11-07

#36 This week's database news, issue 36 2014-10-31

#35 This week's database news, issue 35 2014-10-24

#34 This week's database news, issue 34 2014-10-17

#33 This week's database news, issue 33 2014-10-10

#32 This week's database news, issue 32 2014-10-03

#31 This week's database news, issue 31 2014-09-26

#30 This week's database news, issue 30 2014-09-19

#29 This week's database news, issue 29 2014-09-12

#28 This week's database news, issue 28 2014-09-05

#27 This week's database news, issue 27 2014-08-29

#26 This week's database news, issue 26 2014-08-22

#25 This week's database news, issue 25 2014-08-15

#24 This week's database news, issue 24 2014-08-08

#23 This week's database news, issue 23 2014-08-01

#22 This week's database news, issue 22 2014-07-25

#21 This week's database news, issue 21 2014-07-18

#20 This Week's Database News - 2014-07-10

#19 This Week's Database News - 2014-06-28

#18 This Week's Database News (#18) 2014-06-12

#17 This Week's Database News (#17) 2014-06-05

#16 This Week's Database News (#16) 2014-05-29

#15 This Week's Database News (#15) 2014-05-22

#14 This Week's Database News (#14) 2014-05-15

#13 This Week's Database News (#13) 2014-05-08

#12 This Week's Database News (#12) 2014-05-01

#11 This Week's Database News (#11) 2014-04-24

#10 This Week's Database News (#10) 2014-04-17

#9 This Week's Database News (#9) 2014-04-10

#8 This Week's Database News (#8) 2014-04-04

#7 This Week's Database News (#7) 2014-03-27

#6 This Week's Database News (#6) 2014-03-20

#5 This Week's Database News (#5) 2014-03-14

#4 This Week's Database News (#4) 2014-03-06

#3 This Week's Database News (#3) 2014-02-27

#2 This Week's Database News (#2) 2014-02-20

#1 This Week's Database News (#1) 2014-01-21