CrateDB Tackles Machine Analytics with Scale-Out SQL Database — CrateDB, a new open source database, combines the natural scalability of NoSQL solutions with the SQL interface of standard relational databases. GitHub repo here.

Paying it Forward — How BigQuery’s Data Ingest Breaks Tech Norms — A look at Google BigQuery’s approach to batch data ingestion, why it’s so different to other approaches, and how that matters in practice.

TextQL: Execute SQL Against Structured Text Like CSV or TSV — Under the hood it pulls in a CSV to SQLite then runs queries against it. Written in Go.

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

Richard Hipp on Why SQLite Succeeded as a Database — A talk with Richard Hipp, the creator of SQLite, about its history, where it came from, and why it succeeded as a database. 84 minutes.

Data Wrangling at Slack — The tools and technologies the data engineering team at Slack use to help people in the company quickly and easily answer questions about usage.

Trying Out Bloom Indexes in Postgres — Bloom filters are space-efficient probabilistic data structures that work around hashing data into bitfields. This post tests outs Postgres’ support for them as indexes.

How the Most Innovative SaaS Companies Use Data — How the most innovative SaaS companies out there use (and scale) their data practices. 39 minutes podcast, or a complete transcription to read.