Is Logical Data Modeling Obsolete? — When databases were sized in megabytes rather than petabytes, their design was a well-defined discipline of data analysis and implementation, but how have things changed in the modern era?

3 NoSQL Databases You’ve Never Heard Of — A quick look at MUMPS (a 51 year old database designed for healthcare use), c-treeACE, and FinchDB.

How SmartNews Built a Content Recommendation Engine on AWS — Not solely about databases, but ultimately SmartNews is a heavily data-driven organization and its use of numerous tools and services is striking.

SQL Dashboards in a Flash. — Periscope Data lets you run analyses over billions of rows in seconds.

Charting Neo4j 3.0 — “I want to show you how easy it got with Neo4j 3.0 to pull data from the graph into your JavaScript code and, for instance, create pretty charts from it.”

Using SQL to Monitor a PostgreSQL Database — PostgreSQL provides an activity-tracking module called the statistics collector, which tracks table access and other internal events. If your database is experiencing long wait times, you may be able to use this tool and some simple SQL to find and fix the problem.

Our Journey From Graph Databases to PostgreSQL — Graph databases have their time and place but just because you can do something in a graph database doesn’t mean it’s ideal. Here, follow a journey taken from Mongo to Neo4j to Postgres.

BuntDB: Embeddable, In-Memory Key/Value Database in Go — A low-level, in-memory (but persists to disk), key/value store in pure Go, with geospatial support. Inspired by BoltDB.

Writing More Legible SQL — Writing SQL is one thing, but when it comes to reading other’s SQL, things can get tricky. These few tips will help to make your SQL much more understandable by others.

Redis Labs Raises $14M for Its In-Memory NoSQL Database Services — Redis Labs, the company behind the open source Redis data structure store, today announced that it has raised a $14 million Series C round led by Bain Capital.