Memory is the Next Platform — Phase change memory, memristors, resistive RAM, 3D XPoint, and others are on the research horizon and memory is having an impact on computation and data handling generally.

Is Spinning Disk Going Extinct? Experts Weigh In — As fast SSDs get cheaper and tape drives get bigger, the sweet spot where spinning HDDs make sense gets smaller.

AgilData Zero: Zero-Knowledge Encryption for MySQL — An open source project (currently ‘proof of concept’) for protecting MySQL databases from breaches.

Heap tracks everything users do in your app then gives you SQL access to it — Heap is like Google Analytics, except it works automatically: It auto-records all events users take in your web or iOS app. You can then graph users' behavior, visualize their funnels, and drill into what leads to high conversions.

15 Awesome Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Google BigQuery — All data is encrypted both at rest and in transit by deafult, it has efficient concurrency, it’s serverless and fully managed, supports public datasets, and more.

Fact or Fiction: Google BigQuery Outperforms Amazon Redshift as an Enterprise Data Warehouse? — Amazon hits back at benchmarks presented by Google that portrayed BigQuery as being faster than Redshift and runs some benchmarks of their own.

An Advanced Elasticsearch Architecture for High-Volume Reindexing — “I’ve found a new and funny way to play with Elasticsearch to reindex a production cluster without disturbing our clients.”

Calling All Cabs: A Database Model for a Taxi Service — The latest in a long line of practical database modelling articles from Vertabelo, this time looking at how to model a taxi service.