MongoDB 3.4 Released: Aiming at the Enterprise — Enterprise scale functionality seems to be the focus of this release with features that embrace additional data models, operational and analytical processing, and elastic cross-region scaling.

NASA Is Harnessing Graph Databases To Organize Lessons Learned From Past Projects — NASA is modernizing its ‘lessons learned’ database with graph database technology to enable it to make better decisions in the future.

Redis Module Speeds Spark-Powered Machine Learning — The newly released Redis-ML component for the popular in-memory data store accelerates machine learning functions with Apache Spark.

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S2Graph: A Graph Database for Transactional Graph Processing at Scale — An in-progress graph database undergoing incubation at Apache. Built in Java and accessible via a REST API.

Continuous MySQL Backup Validation: Restoring Backups — Divij Rajkumar explains how Facebook continuously tests the ability to restore databases from backups, ensuring they can quickly recover from an outage.

Dockerizing MySQL at Uber Engineering — A look at Schemadock, Uber’s tooling solution for managing its increasing number of MySQL clusters.