---
title: "This week's database news, issue 128"
publication: "DB Weekly"
issue: 128
published_at: "2016-10-28"
canonical_url: "https://dbweekly.com/issues/128"
---

Database Weekly 128   . 

This week's database news -[Read this on the Web](http://dbweekly.com/issues/128) 

[Database Weekly](http://dbweekly.com) Issue 128 — October 28, 2016     

Featured [Memory is the Next Platform](http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/10/10/memory-next-platform/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — 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. Nicole Hemsothopinion [Is Spinning Disk Going Extinct? Experts Weigh In](https://www.datanami.com/2016/10/25/spinning-disk-going-extinct-experts-weigh/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — As fast SSDs get cheaper and tape drives get bigger, the sweet spot where spinning HDDs make sense gets smaller. Datanamiopinion [AgilData Zero: Zero-Knowledge Encryption for MySQL](http://www.agildata.com/agildata-zero-zero-knowledge-encryption-mysql/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — An open source project (currently ‘proof of concept’) for protecting MySQL databases from breaches. AgilDatatools [Heap tracks everything users do in your app then gives you SQL access to it](https://heapanalytics.com/enterprise?utm_source=cooper&utm_campaign=db&utm_medium=newsletter) — 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. Heap Analyticssponsored [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/edd53d3a.png)](https://heapanalytics.com/enterprise?utm_source=cooper&utm_campaign=db&utm_medium=newsletter) [15 Awesome Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Google BigQuery](https://medium.com/google-cloud/15-awesome-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-google-bigquery-6654841fa2dc?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — 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. Tino Tereshkoopinion [Fact or Fiction: Google BigQuery Outperforms Amazon Redshift as an Enterprise Data Warehouse?](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/fact-or-fiction-google-big-query-outperforms-amazon-redshift-as-an-enterprise-data-warehouse/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Amazon hits back at benchmarks presented by Google that portrayed BigQuery as being faster than Redshift and runs some benchmarks of their own. Randall Huntopinion [An Advanced Elasticsearch Architecture for High-Volume Reindexing](https://thoughts.t37.net/abusing-an-innocent-elasticsearch-cluster-for-a-mass-reindex-without-disturbing-your-clients-360384fca105?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email#.ojk749rhu) — _“I’ve found a new and funny way to play with Elasticsearch to reindex a production cluster without disturbing our clients.”_ Fred de Villamiltutorial [Calling All Cabs: A Database Model for a Taxi Service](http://www.vertabelo.com/blog/technical-articles/calling-all-cabs-a-database-model-for-a-taxi-service?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — The latest in a long line of practical database modelling articles from Vertabelo, this time looking at how to model a taxi service. Vertabelotutorial Jobs [Data Integration Engineer (Kafka/ElasticSearch/Postgres/Python)](https://jobs.lever.co/realscout/c81351cc-c623-467b-b433-e517530cb16e?lever-source=DBWEEKLY) — Want to help make sense of the data behind the $1 trillion real estate market? Hundreds of data feeds to normalize. Millions of photos to classify. Millions of user events to analyze. You name it, we got it. REALSCOUT [Want Multiple Job Offers? - Try Hired](http://hired.com/?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=petercooperpress&utm_campaign=q4-16-dbweekly) — Why job hunt like it's the 90s? Try Hired today to get in front of thousands of innovative companies. Hired In brief [LHops Smashes Hadoop Record – Over 1 Million Operations Per Second](http://www.logicalclocks.com/index.php/2016/10/14/hops-smashes-hadoop-record-over-1-million-operations-per-second/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Logical Clocksnews [RavenDB 3.5 RTM Released](https://ayende.com/blog/175937/ravendb-3-5-rtm-released?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — RavenDB is an open source NoSQL database for .NET. ayende.​comnews [MongoDB Launchpad: A MongoDB 3.4 Event in SF on November 1st](https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-launchpad-2016?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) MongoDBnews [Startups Look to Speed Up Data Transfers to AWS Redshift](https://www.datanami.com/2016/10/25/startups-look-speed-aws-redshift/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Datanaminews [Firebird Conference 2016 Papers](http://www.firebirdnews.org/firebird-conference-2016-papers/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) firebirdnews.​orgnews [Spark ML Runs 10x Faster on GPUs, Databricks Says](https://www.datanami.com/2016/10/27/spark-ml-runs-faster-gpus/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Datanaminews [Upload Files From Anywhere](http://www.launchbit.com/taz/11159-6574-111) — The API for file uploads. Integrate Filestack in 2 lines of code. filestacksponsored [Fuzzy Search with MongoDB and Python](https://medium.com/xeneta/fuzzy-search-with-mongodb-and-python-57103928ee5d?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A typo-robust and flexible search of names and short phrases. Zakhar Shapuraututorial [Production psql Prompts for Postgres Users](http://www.openscg.com/2016/10/production-psql-prompts/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Scott Meadtutorial [Identical SQL Queries != Identical Results](https://falkus.co/2016/10/identical-sql-queries-same-results/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Martin Falkusstory [A Comparison of Time Series Databases and Netsil’s Use of Druid](https://blog.netsil.com/a-comparison-of-time-series-databases-and-netsils-use-of-druid-db805d471206?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email#.pc3ugk6zn) — Brief analysis comparing Cassandra, Druid, Riak-TS, InfluxDB, OpenTSDB, Prometheus and Elasticsearch. Netsil Inc.​ story [Benchmarking Go's Redis Server Libraries](https://simongui.github.io/2016/10/24/benchmarking-go-redis-server-libraries.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Comparing Redis, Redcon & Redeo libraries. Simon Guindonopinion [See what your users see](http://www.launchbit.com/taz/11159-6560-111) — Capture everything, and we mean everything (including the full DOM and console logs), about your customer experience with one easy-to-install script. Try it free. fullstorysponsored [pg-cert-check: A Tool to Monitor Postgres Database SSL Certificates](https://chr4.org/blog/2016/10/24/pg-cert-check-a-tool-to-monitor-postgresql-database-ssl-certificates/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Chris Aumanntools [Rambler: A Simple and Language-Independant SQL Schema Migration Tool](https://github.com/elwinar/rambler?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Romain Bauguetools [Join Monster: A GraphQL-to-SQL Query Execution Layer for Batch Data Fetching](https://github.com/stems/join-monster?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Stemcode    

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