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Issue 107 — June 2, 2016
Featured
SQL Server 2016 Now Generally Available — Includes updateable, in-memory columnstores, R integration, and improved cross-platform analytics (such as with PolyBase).
Microsoft    tools   
Comparing CHAR and VARCHAR Types in Different DB Engines — Database storage engines frequently spring up surprises - this roundup looks at the various ways MySQL, SQLite, Postgres, Oracle and SQL Server deal with CHAR and VARCHAR types.
Vertabelo    tutorial   
See inside your Redis database. New memory mapping from RedisGreen — RedisGreen builds a map of your Redis memory usage, tracking the size of keys over time, helping you track down problems and gain new insights.
RedisGreen    sponsored   
BigBash: Convert SQL SELECTs to Bash One-Liners — Converts select statements to Bash one-liners that are executable directly on CSV, log files & similar files.
Zalando SE    tools   
Looking Inside The MySQL 5.7 Document Store — A quick demonstration of how MySQL’s new document storage feature works.
Alexander Rubin    tutorial   
Extending The Redis Database — A 10 minute discussion with Redis creator Salvatore Sanfilippo about Redis’ new module system.
Rachel Roumeliotis
Monitoring Cassandra at Scale — Yelp uses Cassandra heavily and while it’s built to deal with failure, robust monitoring is essential at their scale.
Joseph Lynch    tutorial   
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In brief
Big Data and the Cloud: Uncover New Insights Hiding in Your Data
Datanami    news   
Export Redis Snapshots from ElastiCache to Amazon S3
Amazon    news   
On-demand Webinar: Turbocharge Your SQL Queries In-Memory with Apache® Ignite™ — Learn how to boost performance 1,000X and scale to over 1 billion transactions per second with your SQL-based applications.
GridGain In-Memory Data Fabric    sponsored   
Building an Application with CockroachDB and SQLAlchemy
Ben Darnell    tutorial   
5 Useful Tips to Make Your Hadoop Deployment Robust
Noam Hasson    tutorial   
Setting Up Elasticsearch for a Blog
Nicolás Bevacqua    tutorial   
Using Elasticsearch Aggregations for Analytics
Igor Bobriakov    tutorial   
Mutating Table Error In Oracle: Why It Happens And What You Can Do About It
David Fitzjarrell    tutorial   
Redesigning A Notification System using Postgres
Upstats    tutorial   
Merging Batch and Stream Processing in a Post Lambda World
Datanami    opinion   
One Call to Rule Them All — Access SQL and NoSQL databases across multiple servers with a singular REST API. Free, open source platform.
DreamFactory    tools    sponsored   
ElectroCRUD: A Modern MySQL CRUD Application
Garry Lachman    code   
libsqlfs: Implements A POSIX-Style Filesystem on top of SQLite
Guardian Project    code   
Miniredis: A Pure Go Redis Server, Ideal for Unit Tests
Harmen    code   
How Netflix Caches App Data Using SSDs
The Netflix Tech Blog    story   
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