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Issue 123 — September 23, 2016
Featured
Pushing Database Scalability Up And Out With GPUs — It turns out what’s good for simulation and machine learning is also good for databases. GPUs are increasingly being seen as the way forward for faster databases.
Timothy Prickett Morgan    story   
Apache CouchDB 2.0 Final Now Available — CouchDB 2.0 is 99% API compatible with the 1.x series and most applications should continue to just work.
CouchDB    news   
How Not To Use Cassandra Like An RDBMS (and What Will Happen If You Do) — Cassandra isn’t an RDMS, but it has some features that make it look a bit like one. This post reviews some example scenarios.
Dominic Fox    tutorial   
Understand your users. — Running a complex app? Record, analyze & watch live sessions of your users
Jaco Analytics    sponsored   
A SQL Symbol Cheat Sheet — A handy reference for a variety of symbols and operators you can use in SQL.
Periscope    tutorial   
Introducing MySQL InnoDB Cluster — MySQL InnoDB Cluster integrates across MySQL server, Group Replication and MySQL Router for a complete High Availability solution based on InnoDB, all managed through a scriptable API. 5 minute demo.
MySQL Server Team    tools   
Scalable Stream Processing: A Survey of Storm, Samza, Spark and Flink — A thorough overview of popular distributed stream processing systems highlighting their similarities, differences and trade-offs taken in their respective designs.
Wolfram Wingerath    story   
RedRaft: Experimental Redis + Raft Server Implementation — Raft is a consensus algo for multiple servers to agree on values in order to provide fault-tolerance.
Josh Baker    code   
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In brief
AWS Redshift Feels The Heat — Redshift is taking a beating this week, with competitors Oracle Corp. and Cloudera claiming their platforms run faster for less money.
Datanami    news   
Announcing Citus MX: Scaling Postgres to Over 500k Writes Per Second — The private beta of Citus MX is now available.
Citus Data    news   
Digging in On Cloud SQL Automatic Storage Increases — There’s a new setting in the storage dialog of Cloud SQL Second Generation: “Enable automatic storage increase.”
Google Cloud Platform    news   
Connecting R and Compose PostgreSQL — Learn how to connect R, the language used by data scientists and statisticians, to PostgreSQL with RPostgreSQL and RPostgres.
Compose    tutorial    sponsored   
Improve PostgreSQL On Windows Performance by 100%
David Rader    tutorial   
Tracking KPIs using SQL for Effective Revenue Growth Analysis
Periscope    tutorial   
Building A Scalable MySQL Proxy in Rust
AgilData    tutorial   
Moving Average Pipeline Aggregations in Elasticsearch
Vineeth Mohan    tutorial   
Dynamic Pivot Tables with JSON and PostgreSQL
Andrew Bender    tutorial   
Can Hadoop Be Simple Again?
Datanami    opinion   
N+1 Queries Are Hardly A Feature
Ayende Rahien    opinion   
New DreamFactory cache service supports Redis, memcached, and local storage — Flexible and fast, DreamFactory’s new Cache Service is a powerful tool for API automation.
DreamFactory    tools    sponsored   
Protobuf Query: Run SQL Queries over Protocol Buffers
Sanchay Harneja    code   
ActorDB: A Distributed SQL Database with Linear Scalability
ActorDB    code   
BedquiltDB v2: A JSON Document Store Built on Postgres — Version 2 includes new query operators for matching JSON documents, and you can now get up and running fast with a simple Docker image.
Shane Kilkelly    code   
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