---
title: "This week's database news, issue 132"
publication: "DB Weekly"
issue: 132
published_at: "2016-12-02"
canonical_url: "https://dbweekly.com/issues/132"
---

Database Weekly 132   . 

This week's database news -[Read this on the Web](http://dbweekly.com/issues/132) 

[Database Weekly](http://dbweekly.com) Issue 132 — December 2, 2016     

Featured [Amazon Athena: Serverless Interactive Query Service](https://aws.amazon.com/athena/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A new serverless, interactive query service on AWS that makes it easy to analyze data stored on S3 using standard SQL. Amazon Web Servicestools [Announcing the General Availability of MongoDB 3.4](https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/announcing-the-general-availability-of-mongodb-3-4-and-bug-hunt-winners?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — 3.4 adds a new aggregation pipeline stage for recursive lookups on graph queries, support for the decimal data type, faceted navigation support, and more. [Release notes here](https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/release-notes/3.4/). MongoDBnews [Amazon Adds Postgres Compatibility to Aurora](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-aurora-update-postgresql-compatibility/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — [Aurora](https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/) began life as a MySQL-compatible high performance cloud database - now it’s compatible with Postgres. Amazonnews [Estimating CPU Per Query With Weighted Linear Regression](https://www.vividcortex.com/resources/estimating-cpu-per-query-with-weighted-linear-regression?utm_campaign=DB%20Weekly&utm_source=ppc) — It's sometimes impossible to answer what's consuming resources like CPU, IO, & memory in a complex software. This ebook explains how a specialization of ordinary linear regression gives useful answers to seemingly unsolvable database questions. VividCortexsponsored [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/f6f55945.png)](https://www.vividcortex.com/resources/estimating-cpu-per-query-with-weighted-linear-regression?utm_campaign=DB%20Weekly&utm_source=ppc) [ToroDB: Open Source NoSQL Database That Runs On Top of A RDBMS](https://github.com/torodb/torodb?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Speaks the MongoDB wire protocol but stores data in an ACID database. There’s also _Stampede_ which can replicate data real time from MongoDB to an SQL database for BI use. ToroDBcode [Tera: A High-Perf Distributed NoSQL Database](https://github.com/baidu/tera/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A project from Baidu billed as ‘an Internet-scale database’ inspired by Google’s BigTable and designed for real-time applications working at up to petabyte scale. Baiducode [ReasonDB: A Native Syncing Object Database with An SQL Like Syntax](https://github.com/anywhichway/reasondb?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A native JavaScript auto-synchronizing object database with a SQL like syntax and persistence engines for both the browser and Node. Simon Y.​ Blackwellcode [CHAR(16) Conference: A Data Scalability Event in NYC (Dec 6)](http://charconference.org/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Showcasing the significant developments that leading PostgreSQL engineering teams have made in the areas of clustering, high availability and replication. Use code DBW50 for $50 off your ticket price. Char Conferencenews Jobs [Shouldn't Companies Apply to You? - Try Hired](http://hired.com/?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=petercooperpress&utm_campaign=q4-16-dbweekly) — You're on the cutting edge of technology, why job hunt like it's the 90s? Try Hired today and have 4,000+ top companies apply for the chance to interview you. Hired In brief [AWS Now Offering Trucks to Move Your Data to Its Cloud](http://venturebeat.com/2016/11/30/aws-unveils-snowmobile-truck-for-moving-data-to-its-cloud/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — For working at petabyte and exabyte scales. VentureBeatnews [DataGrip 2016.3 Released: A Database IDE for SQL Developers](https://blog.jetbrains.com/datagrip/2016/11/24/datagrip-2016-3-released/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) JetBrainsnews [ArangoDB Closes 2.2 Million Euro Investment Led by Target Partners](https://www.arangodb.com/2016/11/arangodb-closes-2-2-million-euro-investment-led-target-partners/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) ArangoDBnews [Embattled Redshift Gets Analytics Backing](https://www.datanami.com/2016/11/22/embattled-redshift-gets-analytics-backing/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Datanaminews [Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Are Now HIPAA-Eligible Services](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/11/amazon-aurora-and-amazon-rds-for-postgresql-are-now-hipaa-eligible-services/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Great news if you’re in the US healthcare industry. Amazon Web Servicesnews [Database monitoring for any stack, at any scale](https://www.datadoghq.com/database-monitoring/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=CooperPress&utm_campaign=CooperPress-DBWeekly&utm_content=Databases) — Datadog integrates with 150+ infrastructure technologies, including MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, and Amazon RDS. Datadogsponsored [A Database Model for Action Games](http://www.vertabelo.com/blog/technical-articles/a-database-model-for-action-games?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Vertabelo are back with one of their great database modelling articles. vertabelotutorial [How to Start Building An App using SQL Server](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/developer-get-started/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Choose your language and operating system and get custom instructions. Microsofttutorial [Deep Dive Into Hash Indexes for In-Memory OLTP Tables](http://www.sqlshack.com/deep-dive-hash-indexes-memory-oltp-tables/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Kaloyan Kosevtutorial [Installing SQL Server on Linux + Connecting and Running Queries From Linux](http://sqlservercode.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/installing-sql-server-on-linux.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Denis Gobotutorial [Real-Time Event Aggregation at Scale using Postgres with Citus](https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2016/11/29/event-aggregation-at-scale-with-postgresql/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Citus Datatutorial [Get Started with SQL Server with Node on macOS, Linux or Windows](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/developer-get-started/node-mac?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A set of simple walkthroughs from Microsoft. Microsofttutorial [CockroachDB Stability Post-Mortem: From 1 Node to 100 Nodes](https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/cockroachdb-stability-from-1-node-to-100-nodes/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) CockroachDBstory [How to Make Your Database 200x Faster Without Having to Pay More?](http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/11/28/how-to-make-your-database-200x-faster-without-having-to-pay.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A look at producing faster ‘almost perfect’ answers in analytics/BI scenarios. High Scalabilitystory [Rump: Hot Sync Two Redis Servers using Dumps](https://github.com/stickermule/rump?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Sticker Muletools [Database-as-a-Service](http://www.launchbit.com/taz/11159-6688-111) — Quickly and easily deploy your database with Compose. Free for 30 days. Composetools sponsored [GEM: A GUI for Data Modeling with Elasticsearch](https://github.com/appbaseio/gem?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) appbasetools [JSON-Splora: GUI for Editing, Visualizing, and Manipulating JSON Data](https://github.com/wellsjo/JSON-Splora?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Built with Electron and Node. Wells Johnstoncode [Redis Docker: A Ready-to-Use Redis Environment on Docker](https://github.com/TimTosi/mechanist/tree/master/redis?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Timothee Tosicode    

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