---
title: "Where the DB market goes from here, plus a new data structure server"
publication: "DB Weekly"
issue: 117
published_at: "2016-08-12"
canonical_url: "https://dbweekly.com/issues/117"
---

Database Weekly 117   . 

This week's database news -[Read this on the Web](http://dbweekly.com/issues/117) 

[Database Weekly](http://dbweekly.com) Issue 117 — August 12, 2016     

Featured [Where the Database Market Goes From Here](http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2016/08/10/database-market/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — 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'Gradyopinion [Knuckleball: A New Data Structure Server](https://github.com/ral99/knuckleball?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — 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.​ Limacode [SQLite 3.14 Released: Now Supports CSV Virtual Tables](https://www.sqlite.org/releaselog/3_14.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — This “Pi release” includes a variety of performance increases and support for [CSV virtual tables](https://www.sqlite.org/csv.html). SQLitenews [Diagnose Query Latency with Datadog](https://www.datadoghq.com/database-monitoring/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=CooperPress&utm_campaign=CooperPress-DBWeekly&utm_content=Databases) — 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. Datadogsponsored [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/e869bbd4.png)](https://www.datadoghq.com/database-monitoring/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=CooperPress&utm_campaign=CooperPress-DBWeekly&utm_content=Databases) [What Do The Olympics, Euro 2016, and Databases Have In Common?](http://www.vertabelo.com/blog/technical-articles/what-do-the-olympic-games-uefa-euro-2016-football-matches-and-databases-have-in-common?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — 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 Drkušićtutorial [Ephemeral Databases with ZFS](https://medium.com/in-the-weeds/ephemeral-databases-with-zfs-fd5c31235e38?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — How the Greenhouse Engineering team brought clone time down from hours to milliseconds using Mesos, Docker, and ZFS. Diana Liututorial [Sqlectron: A Simple SQL Desktop Client for Multiple Databases](https://sqlectron.github.io/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A simple and lightweight SQL client desktop/terminal supporting Postgres, MySQL, and SQL Server on Linux, OS X and Windows. Sqlectrontools Jobs [Stop wasting time - know what you'll earn before the interview](https://hired.com/?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=petercooperpress&utm_campaign=q3-16-dbweekly) — On Hired, sign up in 10 minutes and get offers from top companies like GitHub, Uber, & Stripe. Engineers get an average of 5 offers on the platform in 1 week. Hired.​com In brief [Open Source Tool 'Rethinks' Databases](https://www.datanami.com/2016/08/10/open-source-tool-rethinks-databases/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — 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 Leopoldnews [A 'Simple Moving Objects' Database with Postgres](https://zejn.net/b/2016/08/08/simple-moving-objects-database-with-postgres/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A guide for how you can deal with geospatial objects and track them over time. Gašper Žejntutorial [Sharding A Multi-Tenant App with Postgres](https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2016/08/10/sharding-for-a-multi-tenant-app-with-postgres/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Citus Datatutorial [23 Useful Elasticsearch Example Queries](http://distributedbytes.timojo.com/2016/07/23-useful-elasticsearch-example-queries.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Tim Ojotutorial [Triggers in a .NET NoSQL Database](http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1117244/Triggers-in-a-NET-NoSQL-Database?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Basit Anwertutorial [Using legacy and modern databases in parallel to build a healthcare app](http://blog.dreamfactory.com/?utm_source=db_weekly&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=healthcare_blog) — Tutorial for combining auto-generated APIs from MySQL and MongoDB to build a medication tracker. DreamFactorysponsored tutorial [ZeroDB Provides Security for Enterprise Big Data in the Cloud](http://themacro.com/articles/2016/08/zerodb/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) The Macrostory [Realtime Data Processing at Facebook](http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/realtime-data-processing-at-facebook.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Murat Demirbasstory [AWS Aurora vs. AWS RDS MySQL Checklist](http://www.emind.co/blog/aws-aurora-vs-aws-rds-mysql-checklist/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Jack Bezalelopinion [Why Most Programmers Get Pagination Wrong](https://blog.jooq.org/2016/08/10/why-most-programmers-get-pagination-wrong/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — _TL;DR: OFFSET pagination bad. Keyset pagination good._ JavaOOQopinion [Concurrency Behavior: MongoDB vs. Couchbase](http://blog.couchbase.com/2016/july/testing-mongodb-and-couchbase-concurrent-query?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Keshav Murthyopinion [Try Compose PostgreSQL, get a free tshirt](https://www.compose.com/articles/try-postgresql?utm_source=cooper&utm_medium=db-newsletter&utm_campaign=postgresql-tshirtDb) — 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. Composesponsored tools [MaxScale: An Intelligent Database Proxy](https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/MaxScale?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A proxy that allows forwarding of database statements to one or more servers using complex rules. MariaDB Corporationtools [eclairjs-nashorn: JavaScript API for Apache Spark](https://github.com/EclairJS/eclairjs-nashorn?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) github.​comcode    

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