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Issue 112 — July 8, 2016
Featured
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.
Fred de Villamil    tutorial   
All About Indexes: The Very Basics — Well defined indexes will improve your database’s performance significantly, but how do they work?
Emil Drkušić    tutorial   
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.
Luka Seder    tutorial   
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.
Datadog    sponsored   
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.)
Percona    news   
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.
Kueri    tools   
Redis-Commander: A Webapp for Managing a Redis Database — A Node.js-based web application used to view, edit, and manage a Redis Database.
Joe Ferner    tools   
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In brief
InfluxDB Tops Cassandra in Time-Series Data and Metrics Benchmark — As always, note who is doing the benchmarking.
InfluxData    news   
Reindexing Elasticsearch with Zero Downtime
Ari Summer    tutorial   
Implementing a Neural Network in SQL
Yuri Shevchuk    tutorial   
Autoscaling MySQL for Massive Datasets
geektyler    tutorial   
Building WePay's Data Warehouse using BigQuery and Airflow
WePay    story   
Finding and Killing Long Running Queries On PostgreSQL — From time to time we need to investigate if there is any query running indefinitely on a PostgreSQL database.
Anderson Dias
The Evolution of Apache Spark: Journey of Spark in 1.x Series
Madhukara Phatak    video   
Introduction to Spark 2.0
Madhukara Phatak    video   
An Interview about RavenDB on the NoSQL Podcast
Ayende Rahien
A Full Comparison of Redshift and BigQuery
Roi Avinoam    opinion   
Thinking in SQL vs Thinking in Python
Benn Stancil    opinion   
The Performance Characteristics of MySQL on Docker
Trond Humborstad    opinion   
SQL Dashboards in a Flash — Periscope Data lets you run analyses over billions of rows in seconds.
Periscope Data    tools    sponsored   
SparkADMM: A Massively-Parallel Framework for Solving Big Data Problems
Yahoo Research    tools   
EclairJS: Access Apache Spark from Node.js
IBM    code   
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