Reindexing 36bn Documents in 5 Days on an Elasticsearch Cluster — A very thorough walk through of the techniques, trials, and tribulations involved with reindexing a large Elasticsearch cluster.

All About Indexes: The Very Basics — Well defined indexes will improve your database’s performance significantly, but how do they work?

Say No to Venn Diagrams When Explaining JOINs — It’s common to illustrate how SQL JOIN operations work using Venn diagrams, but is there a better way? Luka Seder considers other options.

Put database performance in context — Visualize key metrics and set targeted alerts across your infrastructure. Datadog has built-in integrations with MySQL, Postgres, Redis, and more, plus StatsD support for monitoring custom metrics from your client applications.

MySQL 8.0 to Be the Next Major Release of MySQL — MySQL 8.0 seems likely to be the next release of the world-famous database server, rather than 5.8. (Most likely due to MySQL Cluster being at 7.4 already.)

Kueri: A Natural Language Interface to SQL — A new, interactive search-box interface to allow your users to navigate, explore, and present their data with intuitive as-you-type auto-complete suggestions.

Redis-Commander: A Webapp for Managing a Redis Database — A Node.js-based web application used to view, edit, and manage a Redis Database.