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Issue 117 — August 12, 2016
Featured
Where the Database Market Goes From Here — The database market of today looks significantly different to that of a decade ago, but Stephen O’Grady, foudner of RedMonk, thinks even more change is on the horizon.
Stephen O'Grady    opinion   
Knuckleball: A New Data Structure Server — Reminds me of Redis. Uses a language with syntax similar to that of Smalltalk to manipulate data types like booleans, characters, integers, floats and strings, and containers like vectors, sets and dictionaries.
Rodrigo A.​ Lima    code   
SQLite 3.14 Released: Now Supports CSV Virtual Tables — This “Pi release” includes a variety of performance increases and support for CSV virtual tables.
SQLite    news   
Diagnose Query Latency with Datadog — To get to the bottom of database performance issues, you need high-resolution data from all your systems. See metrics from all your database instances, client applications, load balancers, and more with Datadog.
Datadog    sponsored   
What Do The Olympics, Euro 2016, and Databases Have In Common? — Can you develop a system that predicts football match results? Or Olympic medal outcomes? Here’s a look at a model that can store the results of matches and tournaments.
Emil Drkušić    tutorial   
Ephemeral Databases with ZFS — How the Greenhouse Engineering team brought clone time down from hours to milliseconds using Mesos, Docker, and ZFS.
Diana Liu    tutorial   
Sqlectron: A Simple SQL Desktop Client for Multiple Databases — A simple and lightweight SQL client desktop/terminal supporting Postgres, MySQL, and SQL Server on Linux, OS X and Windows.
Sqlectron    tools   
Jobs
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In brief
Open Source Tool 'Rethinks' Databases — An open source tool for writing queries and modelling data for use with RethinkDB is being positioned as an alternative to developing applications using the ReQL query language.
George Leopold    news   
A 'Simple Moving Objects' Database with Postgres — A guide for how you can deal with geospatial objects and track them over time.
Gašper Žejn    tutorial   
Sharding A Multi-Tenant App with Postgres
Citus Data    tutorial   
23 Useful Elasticsearch Example Queries
Tim Ojo    tutorial   
Triggers in a .NET NoSQL Database
Basit Anwer    tutorial   
Using legacy and modern databases in parallel to build a healthcare app — Tutorial for combining auto-generated APIs from MySQL and MongoDB to build a medication tracker.
DreamFactory    sponsored    tutorial   
ZeroDB Provides Security for Enterprise Big Data in the Cloud
The Macro    story   
Realtime Data Processing at Facebook
Murat Demirbas    story   
AWS Aurora vs. AWS RDS MySQL Checklist
Jack Bezalel    opinion   
Why Most Programmers Get Pagination Wrong — TL;DR: OFFSET pagination bad. Keyset pagination good.
JavaOOQ    opinion   
Concurrency Behavior: MongoDB vs. Couchbase
Keshav Murthy    opinion   
Try Compose PostgreSQL, get a free tshirt — This month we're giving away free t-shirts for new deployments of Compose PostgreSQL. Sign up and deploy a HA, 3-node Postgres cluster with daily backups and autoscaling in minutes.
Compose    sponsored    tools   
MaxScale: An Intelligent Database Proxy — A proxy that allows forwarding of database statements to one or more servers using complex rules.
MariaDB Corporation    tools   
eclairjs-nashorn: JavaScript API for Apache Spark
github.​com    code   
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