DB Weekly
Issue 57 — May 1, 2015
Supported by
Rob Conery
Rob Conery waxes lyrical about RethinkDB, a database that challenges many of the assumptions about how an RDBMS should work. It’s well worth checking out.


Salvatore Sanfilippo
An in-memory, distributed job queue designed to capture the “Redis as a job queue” use case. It’s not yet considered production ready but shows promise.


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ZDNet
“The present profusion of NoSQL databases can’t last,” says the CTO of Riak company Basho, who predicts a major shakeout of players over time.


MongoDB
If you haven’t yet got your head around the need for data compression in Mongo or how it works, this is a good primer.


Datanami
The Azure Data Lake is an HDFS-compatible data repository designed to store vast amounts (or ‘nearly infinite’ as Microsoft puts it) of data.


The Register
“Adam Goodman of Duo Security has found a vulnerability in the ‘vast majority’ of Oracle MySQL databases that allows SSL to be stripped, exposing sensitive data to man-in-the-middle attackers.”


Niazi, Ismail, et al.
Leader election protocols are a fundamental building block for replicated distributed services. They ease the design of leader-based coordination protocols that tolerate failures.


EnterpriseDB
Using a relational database, such as Postgres, as a canonical source of data is common, but in today’s world you often have more than one RDBMS in a system and connecting them can be hard work. Foreign Data Wrappers or FDWs can go a long way.


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