Baidu Takes FPGA Approach to Accelerating SQL at Scale — Baidu sits on over an exabyte of data and processes around 100 petabytes per day so creative approaches to optimizing data intensive jobs are required.

Forrester's Crowded NoSQL Wave Shows Abundant Options — A high level, commercial look at the increasingly crowded NoSQL database market, based on an interesting report by Forrester.

Building a Real-Time Recommendation Engine — Learn how to build a real-time recommendation engine powered by social, similarity and cluster factors, all leveraging the power of advanced data science.

Join us at DataLayer — Hear speakers from GitHub, Adobe, ZenDesk many others as they discuss how their teams are optimizing the data layer to scale modern web and mobile apps. Reserve your seat now for this one day event on Sept. 28 in Seattle.

The Road to CouchDB 2.0 Series — A new major release for the CouchDB document database is on the way. This roundup includes numerous posts about what’s coming and when.

VanillaDB: A Framework for Extensible Database System Prototypes — A collection of simple, open source components designed to lower the barrier for prototyping new DB systems or learning DB internals.

ddldump: Dump A Clean Version of Your Tables' DDLs for Versioning — Dump and version the schemas of your tables, while cleaning out things that would make it hard to version and check for differences.

What Datatype Should You Use to Represent Time in MySQL? — Whenever you need to save datetime data, a question arises about what MySQL type to use. Do you go with a native MySQL DATE type or use an INT field to store date and time info as a plain number?