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Database Weekly
Issue 118 — August 19, 2016
Featured
NoSQL Databases: A Survey and Decision Guidance — An incredibly thorough overview of the NoSQL landscape.
Felix Gessert    news   
Using State Machines to Run Databases — Want a look at how a large as-a-service offering provides databases at scale? This gives you a look. The key under the covers is a state machine, used by both Citus and Heroku.
Citus Data    tutorial   
10 Transformational Database Technologies — A piece from Oracle referencing in-memory databases, JSON, containers, and the cloud as major transformational influences on modern database systems.
Chris Murphy    opinion   
Itching for a rewrite? Try a Code Inspection™ from Corgibytes first — We know the frustration. You see all the places your app could be so much better, but you can't seem to convince your boss. Next time, mention Corgibytes. Our Code Inspection™ can help you explain technical improvements in a way executives can understand.
Corgibytes    sponsored   
Identity Crisis Threatens to Sideline Hadoop As The Leader of Big Data — The rapid proliferation of Big Data software has made it less certain what Hadoop stands for today.
George Gilbert    opinion   
Advancing Enterprise Database Workloads On Google Cloud Platform — Google’s cloud database storage products (Cloud SQL, Cloud Bigtable and Cloud Datastore) are now out of beta and ready for production use.
Dominic Preuss    news   
Context Aware MySQL Pools via HAProxy — Creating a self-managing topology that excludes lagging replicas automatically, handles disasters gracefully, and still allows for complete human control and visibility.
Shlomi Noach    code   
The SQL Service At The Heart of Amazon Kinesis Analytics — AWS gave real-time app developers a boost recently when it unveiled Amazon Kinesis Analytics, a new service for continuously querying streaming data using SQL.
Alex Woodie    news   
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In brief
Flash Memory Gives Databases a Jolt
Datanami    news   
PostgreSQL 9.6 Beta 4 Released
postgresql.​org    news   
Google Cloud Bigtable Now Generally Available for Petabyte-Scale NoSQL Workloads
Google Cloud Platform Blog    news   
Google Cloud SQL 2nd Generation Performance and Feature Deep Dive
Google Cloud Platform Blog    news   
MySQL Founder Tries A New Software Licensing model — Not strictly DB related but an interesting license that’s being used on DB products.
TechCrunch    news   
Actually Understanding Timezones in PostgreSQL
Chris Clark    tutorial   
Avoid This When Tuning MySQL Query Cache for Performance
Hayden James    tutorial   
Use Auto-Generated APIs from Legacy and Modern Databases in Tandem — Custom scripting example where medical data from MySQL is integrated with a medication tracker built on MongoDB.
DreamFactory    sponsored    tutorial   
How We Migrated From MySQL 5.0 to Google Cloud SQL MySQL 5.6
BrandBox    story   
Analysing Docker Projects On GitHub with BigQuery — 281,212 Docker projects analyzed.
David Gageot    story   
Object Storage with Cassandra and Pithos
Exoscale    story   
Considering NoSQL Databases — A look at your options when choosing a NoSQL solution to fit your needs.
Jamil Rzayev    opinion   
MySQL Notifier 1.1.7: SQL Server MySQL Monitoring on Windows
Javier Treviño    tools   
Mroonga: A MySQL Pluggable Storage Engine for Fulltext Search in Every Language — Including Chinese, Korean, and Japanese.
Mroonga Project    tools   
Agile Incident Resolution for DevOps — Increase uptime of your apps, services and infrastructure with PagerDuty. With full incident visibility, you can respond to and resolve issues faster. Try it free.
PagerDuty    sponsored    tools   
Brooce: A Language-Agnostic Job Queue with a Redis Backend
Sergey Tsalkov    code   
postgresql-cpp: A C++11 Port of Postgres
Joy Arulraj    code   
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