Be warned, there's a heavy dose of Apache Spark in this week's issue, thanks to this week's Spark Summit bringing lots of news out of the woodwork :-)
Why Spark Is On Fire: A Conversation with Creator Matei Zaharia — Apache Spark, the open source framework for distributing computing across clusters of machines, has caught on like wildfire among companies looking for insights from their growing masses of data.
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Google BigQuery Gets Beta Standard SQL Support — Till now, you’ve had to query BigQuery with the SQL-like BQL (BigQuery Query Language) but now full SQL support is coming to the popular data warehouse service.
Planning A Simple Online Store Data Model — The latest in Vertabelo’s long line of common database use case visualizations. This time, how you’d lay out a simple online store’s data model.
5 Reasons You Should Use SQLite in 2016 — Reposting in case you missed this earlier in the year - SQLite is frequently underestimated, but there are many compelling reasons to use it in various contexts.
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Corporate Giving: EDB’s Contributions to PostgreSQL — Robert Hass outlines some of EDB’s recent contributions to the PostgreSQL ecosystem. Like any other company that supports PostgreSQL, EDB makes technical contributions to the PostgreSQL community in a variety of ways: code; patch review, testing, and commit; external tools; and packaging.
Spark Makes Inroads into NoSQL Ecosystem — “The primary use case for deploying Spark and NoSQL databases together involves bridging the transactional and analytic divide.”
