DB Weekly Issue 103: May 5, 2016

Issue 103 — May 5, 2016

Featured

Going Mainstream: Neo4j and The Future of The Graph Database — The release of the Panama Papers shined a spotlight onto graph databases and Neo4j, one of the most popular graph database systems.

ZDNet

Gorilla: Facebook's Fast In-Memory Time Series Database — A look at an academic paper digging into a in-memory time series database used by Facebook to rapidly process metrics on the site.

the morning paper

Redis Labs and Samsung Collaborating on In-Memory Boost — The plan is to accelerate the processing and analysis of large in-memory datasets.

Datanami

Amazon RDS just got better with enhanced monitoring — Now you can monitor DB performance plus more than 50 new system-level metrics. See it all with Datadog.

Datadog sponsored

Understanding Distributed Databases — A look at the concepts and algorithms involved when building distributed data storage systems.

George Farcasiu

Hadoop Performance Troubleshooting with Stack Tracing, An Introduction — If I were going to read anything about Hadoop perf tuning, it’d probably be by someone at CERN!

CERN

rqlite V3: Globally Replicating SQLite — rqlite v3.0 can now replicate SQLite on a global scale. This post shows a global rqlite cluster in action.

Philip O'Toole tools

mongo-query-to-postgres-jsonb: Converts MongoDB Queries to Postgresql Queries for JSONB Fields — Looking to move directly from Mongo over to Postgres? This project could help by automatically converting your queries from Mongo to using JSONB.

Thomas Hansen code

Jobs

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Hired.com

In brief

Apache Kafka Gains Traction Among Enterprise Users — Appetite for stream processing and real-time data access is driving adoption.

Datanami news

Google’s Cloud Dataflow Stomps On Apache Spark in New Benchmark Tests

Mike Wheatley news

Microsoft’s Next Version of SQL Server Will Launch June 1

TechCrunch news

Cassandra Keeps Climbing The Ranks of The DB-Engines Ranking

Matthias Gelbmann news

A First Peek At The Next MongoDB (3.3.5)

Compose news

5 Reasons to Review Your Disaster Recovery Plan Now — Database reliability is a process, not a one-time action. Here are five compelling reasons to review your DR plans now.

EnterpriseDB sponsored

Feature Flagging to Mitigate Risk in Database Migration

Patrick Kaeding

PostgreSQL Vacuuming: An Introduction for Busy Devs

OK I GIVE UP

Coalesce Down using Correlated Subqueries in SQL

Periscope

Working with Email Addresses in PostgreSQL

Josh Branchaud

Best Practices for Configuring Optimal MySQL Memory Usage

Peter Zaitsev

Why Redis Beats Memcached for Caching

Itamar Haber

SQL-on-Apache Hadoop: Choosing The Right Tool for The Right Job — A simple guide to understanding SQL-on-Hadoop choices.

Devadutta Ghat

QuestDB: A Disk-Persisted Lightweight NoSQL DB for Clojure

PT Zenius Education code

Considering migration to PostgreSQL? Get help from the experts — From initial migration assessments and migration assistance, to training and 24/7 technical support, turn to the PostgreSQL professionals for the most comprehensive service.

2ndQuadrant.com sponsored