---
title: "This week's database news, issue 116"
publication: "DB Weekly"
issue: 116
published_at: "2016-08-05"
canonical_url: "https://dbweekly.com/issues/116"
---

Database Weekly 116   . 

This week's database news -[Read this on the Web](http://dbweekly.com/issues/116) 

[Database Weekly](http://dbweekly.com) Issue 116 — August 5, 2016     

Featured [Noms: A Versioned, Forkable, Syncable Database](https://github.com/attic-labs/noms?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Includes two implementations, one in Go, one in JavaScript. There’s also a post [with the back story.](https://medium.com/@aboodman/noms-init-98b7f0c3566) Noms’ creator, Attic Labs, has also [just raised $8.1m.](https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/02/attic-labs-noms-noms/) Attic Labscode [On Uber’s Choice of Databases](http://use-the-index-luke.com/blog/2016-07-29/on-ubers-choice-of-databases?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — 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 Winandopinion [Using AI to Build A Comprehensive Database of Knowledge](https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/using-ai-to-build-a-comprehensive-database-of-knowledge?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — 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.](http://www.launchbit.com/taz/11185-6503-111) — Have an app idea and want to see if it’ll fly?![](https://ad.atdmt.com/i/img;p=11087207537969;idfa=;idfa_lat=;aaid=;aaid_lat=;cache=) Microsoft Azuresponsored [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/9f5fbcdb.png)](http://www.launchbit.com/taz/11185-6503-111) [Introduction to SQL Server Stretch Database](http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/introduction-to-sql-server-stretch-database.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — 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 Polichtnews [gh-ost: GitHub’s Online Schema Migration Tool for MySQL](http://githubengineering.com/gh-ost-github-s-online-migration-tool-for-mysql/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — gh-ost was developed by GitHub to provide an ops-friendly, auditable solution to changing MySQL tables on production systems. GitHub Engineeringtools [Tips for Starting With AWS Redshift](http://engineering.curalate.com/2016/08/04/tips-for-starting-with-redshift.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — 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 Blogtutorial Jobs [Stop Applying to Jobs - Let Companies Come To You](https://hired.com/?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=petercooperpress&utm_campaign=q3-16-dbweekly) — On Hired, engineers typically get 5+ job offers in 1 week. Find that new opportunity you've been craving and get access to 4,000+ companies instantly. Hired.​com In brief [PostgreSQL 10 Development Kicks Off](https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/ba76aeb0-2f84-d180-268f-ea0f5ace4a7b@2ndquadrant.com?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — The next major release of Postgres (after 9.6) will be known as PostgreSQL 10 and development is getting underway. Peter Eisentrautnews [RavenDB 3.5 Release Candidate Available](https://ayende.com/blog/175201/ravendb-3-5-release-candidate?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Oren Eininews [Navigating The World of Modern Data Stores and NoSQL](https://developer.ibm.com/dwblog/navigating-nosql-modern-data-stores/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — IBM is offering up a free ebook _A Field Guide to the World of Modern Data Stores_. Douglas Floranews [Apache Flink Gears Up for Emerging Stream Processing Paradigm](https://www.datanami.com/2016/08/03/apache-flink-gears-emerging-stream-processing-paradigm/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Flink 1.1.1 will bring a new SQL interface for working with streaming data. Alex Woodienews [Apache Kudu: A Fast Columnar Data Store for Hadoop](http://thenewstack.io/apache-kudu-fast-columnar-data-store-hadoop/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Susan Hallnews tools [New Release of dbbench Streamlines Database Workload Testing](http://blog.memsql.com/dbbench-streamlines-database-workload-testing/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A new version of dbbench is now available, as well as a package of high-level tools to enhance it. Alex Reecenews [Azure SQL Database New Premium Performance Level P15 Generally Available](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/sql-database-p15-general-availability/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A new, higher level of Azure SQL performance now available. Microsoftnews [How to Setup a Highly Available Multi-AZ Cassandra Cluster on AWS EC2](http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/8/1/how-to-setup-a-highly-available-multi-az-cassandra-cluster-o.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) High Scalabilitytutorial [The Guts N’ Glory of Database Internals: Merging Transactions](https://ayende.com/blog/174945/the-guts-n-glory-of-database-internals-merging-transactions?Key=81013acb-6745-4013-a577-0884cba4159e&utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Ayende Rahientutorial [A Basic Introduction to MongoDB](http://tutorials.pluralsight.com/nosql-databases/introduction-to-mongodb?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A guide to MongoDB, the open source document-oriented database. Sanjeev Murphytutorial [Automating NoSQL Database Builds](https://medium.com/capital-one-developers/automating-nosql-database-builds-a-python-to-the-rescue-story-that-never-gets-old-1d9adbcf6792?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — _“A ‘Python to the Rescue’ Story That Never Gets Old”_ Steven F.​ Lottstory [Generating Recommendations at Amazon Scale with Apache Spark and Amazon DSSTNE](http://blogs.aws.amazon.com/bigdata/post/TxGEL8IJ0CAXTK/Generating-Recommendations-at-Amazon-Scale-with-Apache-Spark-and-Amazon-DSSTNE?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Amazonstory [How to Steal Any Developer's Local Database](http://bouk.co/blog/hacking-developers/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — 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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivv8sGndkKY&utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Brief introduction to get a basic familiarity with Map/Reduce, Spark & Flink. Simone Robuttivideo [Big Data Acronyms and Abbreviations Every Data Pro Should Know](http://jethro.io/blog/big-data-acronyms-and-abbreviations?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Remy Rosenbaumopinion [6 Points to Compare Python and Scala for Data Science using Apache Spark](https://datasciencevademecum.wordpress.com/2016/01/28/6-points-to-compare-python-and-scala-for-data-science-using-apache-spark/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Gianmario Spacagnaopinion [8 Ways To Be Successful With Microsoft Azure SQL Database](http://thomaslarock.com/2016/08/8-ways-successful-microsoft-azure-sql-database/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Strategies that you want to consider when moving to Microsoft Azure SQL Database. Thomas Larockopinion [API automation for any database](https://www.dreamfactory.com/signup/api-automation?utm_source=postgres_weekly?utm_source=db_weekly&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=devautomation) — Instant dev portal from any SQL or NoSQL data source. DreamFactorytools sponsored [Introducing Tgres: A Postgres-Based Time Series DB](http://grisha.org/blog/2016/07/29/state-of-tgres-2016/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Gregory Trubetskoytools [Shift: An App to Run Online Schema MySQL Migrations](https://github.com/square/shift?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Uses a Go agent and a Rails app to control things. Squaretools [apgdiff: Another PostgreSQL Diff Tool](http://www.apgdiff.com/how_to_use_it.php?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A free database schema diff tool and how to use it. StartNettools [Have you got SQL fingers?](http://www.red-gate.com/products/sql-development/sql-prompt/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=displayemail&utm_content=sqlfingers_v2&utm_campaign=sqlprompt&utm_term=email-24973#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.](http://www.red-gate.com/products/sql-development/sql-prompt/?utm_source=dbweekly=displayemail=sqlfingers_v2=sqlprompt=email-24973#sql-fingers) sqlprompttools sponsored    

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