NoSQL Databases: A Survey and Decision Guidance — An incredibly thorough overview of the NoSQL landscape.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.