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Issue 127 — October 21, 2016
Featured
Picking A Cloud Database for Analytics: The SQL Options — “Amazon Redshift and Google BigQuery provide particularly compelling answers for running analytics queries on event data.”
Andrew Montalenti    opinion   
Your Database is Your Prison - Here's How Expensify Broke Free — A business oriented look at the relationship between a startup, the database it uses, and how database choices affect security and more.
First Round    story   
How We Build TiDB, a NewSQL Database — The story of how and why a team is building TiDB, a new distributed SQL database inspired by Google’s F1 and including the best of both traditional RDBMS and NoSQL.
Max Liu    story   
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SQLite Archiver: A Tool for Packaging Assets in an SQLite Database — Takes a file or a list of files and and creates a SQLite database with the files as stored as BLOBs. You can also mount this archive as a FUSE filesystem.
Jamie Little    tools   
MySQL Cluster 7.5 Released — With support for 128TB+ data set sizes per data node you can both better scale up and out with this release. It’s compatible with MySQL 5.7 under the hood.
Oracle    tools   
Interactive Analytics: Redshift vs Snowflake vs BigQuery — Periscope thoroughly analyzes the use of Redshift, Snowflake and BigQuery for data warehouse-based analytics work. (Spoiler: Redshift won for them.)
Periscope    story   
MongoDB's JavaScript Fuzzer: Creating Chaos — Mongo’s fuzz tester is now their most prolific bug finding tool. Here’s a look at how it works.
Robert Guo    story   
Jobs
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In brief
SQL Server 2016 Express Edition in Windows Containers Now Available
Microsoft    news   
SQLite 3.15.0 Released — A key addition is support for row values.
SQLite    news   
Announcing Automated Daily Backups for the Firebase Database
Google    news   
MySQL on Compose - hosted on AWS, GCP or SoftLayer — Get the most from your favorite RDBMS with 3 Node HA, Daily Backup and Auto-scaling. See how easy it is to connect your Database, hassle-free.
Compose    sponsored   
Building SQL Queries with Temporary Tables vs WHERE IN
Steven Yue    tutorial   
Declarative Data Fetching with GraphQL — Nilan Marktanner creates an Instagram clone highlighting some of the benefits that GraphQL brings to the table.
CSS Tricks    tutorial   
PandaSQL: Make Python Speak SQL
Yhat    tutorial   
Creating A Mongo Cluster in AWS with Ansible
Jeremy Duvall    tutorial   
How to Quickly Rename all Primary Keys in Oracle
jOOQ    tutorial   
Datanet: A New CRDT Database That Let's You Do Bad Bad Things to Distributed Data
Todd Hoff    story   
Survey: The Hidden Costs of Data Operations — VividCortex are seeking opinions on how your organization handles its database systems.
Baron Schwartz    opinion   
SQL Source Control: track each change to your SQL Server database — Get a full history in your source control system. See who made changes, what they did & why. See how.
Red Gate    sponsored   
Rebridge: A Transparent JavaScript Object to Redis Bridge
Capacitor Set    code   
Cassandra 3.7 LTS: A 3.x Edition with Backported Bugfixes
Instaclustr    code   
RXHash: Missing Redis Commands for the Hash Type
github.​com    code   
migrate-mongo: A Database Migration Tool for MongoDB in Node
Sebastian Van Sande    code   
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