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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    news   
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    story   
Redis Labs and Samsung Collaborating on In-Memory Boost — The plan is to accelerate the processing and analysis of large in-memory datasets.
Datanami    news   
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    tutorial   
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    tutorial   
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   
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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    tutorial    sponsored   
Feature Flagging to Mitigate Risk in Database Migration
Patrick Kaeding    tutorial   
PostgreSQL Vacuuming: An Introduction for Busy Devs
OK I GIVE UP    tutorial   
Coalesce Down using Correlated Subqueries in SQL
Periscope    tutorial   
Working with Email Addresses in PostgreSQL
Josh Branchaud    tutorial   
Best Practices for Configuring Optimal MySQL Memory Usage
Peter Zaitsev    tutorial   
Why Redis Beats Memcached for Caching
Itamar Haber    opinion   
SQL-on-Apache Hadoop: Choosing The Right Tool for The Right Job — A simple guide to understanding SQL-on-Hadoop choices.
Devadutta Ghat    opinion   
QuestDB: A Disk-Persisted Lightweight NoSQL DB for Clojure
PT Zenius Education    code   
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