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Issue 116 — August 5, 2016
Featured
Noms: A Versioned, Forkable, Syncable Database — Includes two implementations, one in Go, one in JavaScript. There’s also a post with the back story. Noms’ creator, Attic Labs, has also just raised $8.1m.
Attic Labs    code   
On Uber’s Choice of Databases — Last week Uber’s story of its move away from Postgres to MySQL got a lot of attention. This week we saw a few well reasoned responses from the Postgres community including this one.
Markus Winand    opinion   
Using AI to Build A Comprehensive Database of Knowledge — A 30 minute podcast interview with Mike Tung on large-scale structured data extraction, intelligent systems, and the importance of knowledge databases.
O'Reilly Data Podcast
Create a new app, free. — Have an app idea and want to see if it’ll fly?
Microsoft Azure    sponsored   
Introduction to SQL Server Stretch Database — SQL Server’s new Stretch Database feature provides a cross-premises database where part is in a local SQL Server and the remainder on Azure.
Marcin Policht    news   
gh-ost: GitHub’s Online Schema Migration Tool for MySQL — gh-ost was developed by GitHub to provide an ops-friendly, auditable solution to changing MySQL tables on production systems.
GitHub Engineering    tools   
Tips for Starting With AWS Redshift — Redshift is Amazon’s fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service. Here are 3 tips and tricks learnt from starting up a Redshift pipeline.
Curalate Engineering Blog    tutorial   
Jobs
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In brief
PostgreSQL 10 Development Kicks Off — The next major release of Postgres (after 9.6) will be known as PostgreSQL 10 and development is getting underway.
Peter Eisentraut    news   
RavenDB 3.5 Release Candidate Available
Oren Eini    news   
Navigating The World of Modern Data Stores and NoSQL — IBM is offering up a free ebook A Field Guide to the World of Modern Data Stores.
Douglas Flora    news   
Apache Flink Gears Up for Emerging Stream Processing Paradigm — Flink 1.1.1 will bring a new SQL interface for working with streaming data.
Alex Woodie    news   
Apache Kudu: A Fast Columnar Data Store for Hadoop
Susan Hall    news    tools   
New Release of dbbench Streamlines Database Workload Testing — A new version of dbbench is now available, as well as a package of high-level tools to enhance it.
Alex Reece    news   
Azure SQL Database New Premium Performance Level P15 Generally Available — A new, higher level of Azure SQL performance now available.
Microsoft    news   
How to Setup a Highly Available Multi-AZ Cassandra Cluster on AWS EC2
High Scalability    tutorial   
The Guts N’ Glory of Database Internals: Merging Transactions
Ayende Rahien    tutorial   
A Basic Introduction to MongoDB — A guide to MongoDB, the open source document-oriented database.
Sanjeev Murphy    tutorial   
Automating NoSQL Database Builds — “A ‘Python to the Rescue’ Story That Never Gets Old”
Steven F.​ Lott    story   
Generating Recommendations at Amazon Scale with Apache Spark and Amazon DSSTNE
Amazon    story   
How to Steal Any Developer's Local Database — Locally running services are accessible by any website you visit, making it possible for bad guys to steal the data you have locally.
Bouke van der Bijl
Introduction to Distributed Computing Engines for Data Processing — Brief introduction to get a basic familiarity with Map/Reduce, Spark & Flink.
Simone Robutti    video   
Big Data Acronyms and Abbreviations Every Data Pro Should Know
Remy Rosenbaum    opinion   
6 Points to Compare Python and Scala for Data Science using Apache Spark
Gianmario Spacagna    opinion   
8 Ways To Be Successful With Microsoft Azure SQL Database — Strategies that you want to consider when moving to Microsoft Azure SQL Database.
Thomas Larock    opinion   
API automation for any database — Instant dev portal from any SQL or NoSQL data source.
DreamFactory    tools    sponsored   
Introducing Tgres: A Postgres-Based Time Series DB
Gregory Trubetskoy    tools   
Shift: An App to Run Online Schema MySQL Migrations — Uses a Go agent and a Rails app to control things.
Square    tools   
apgdiff: Another PostgreSQL Diff Tool — A free database schema diff tool and how to use it.
StartNet    tools   
Have you got SQL fingers? — Try SQL Prompt and you’ll be able to write, refactor, and reformat SQL effortlessly in SSMS and Visual Studio. Find out more.
sqlprompt    tools    sponsored   
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