---
title: "This week's database news, issue 134"
publication: "DB Weekly"
issue: 134
published_at: "2016-12-16"
canonical_url: "https://dbweekly.com/issues/134"
---

Database Weekly 134   . 

This week's database news -[Read this on the Web](http://dbweekly.com/issues/134) 

[Database Weekly](http://dbweekly.com) Issue 134 — December 16, 2016     

Featured [CrateDB Tackles Machine Analytics with Scale-Out SQL Database](https://www.datanami.com/2016/12/14/cratedb-tackles-machine-analytics-scale-sql-database/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — CrateDB, a new open source database, combines the natural scalability of NoSQL solutions with the SQL interface of standard relational databases. [GitHub repo here.](https://github.com/crate/crate) Alex Woodienews [Paying it Forward — How BigQuery’s Data Ingest Breaks Tech Norms](https://medium.com/google-cloud/paying-it-forward-how-bigquerys-data-ingest-breaks-tech-norms-8bfe2341f5eb?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — 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. Tino Tereshkostory [TextQL: Execute SQL Against Structured Text Like CSV or TSV](https://github.com/dinedal/textql?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Under the hood it pulls in a CSV to SQLite then runs queries against it. Written in Go. Paul Bergerontools [SQL Source Control: track each change to your SQL Server database](http://www.red-gate.com/products/sql-development/sql-source-control/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=displayemail&utm_content=track_every_change&utm_campaign=sqlsourcecontrol&utm_term=email-25072) — Get a full history in your source control system. See who made changes, what they did & why. [See how](http://www.red-gate.com/products/sql-development/sql-source-control/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=displayemail&utm_content=track_every_change&utm_campaign=sqlsourcecontrol=email-25072) Red Gatesponsored [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/a312b030.png)](http://www.red-gate.com/products/sql-development/sql-source-control/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=displayemail&utm_content=track_every_change&utm_campaign=sqlsourcecontrol&utm_term=email-25072) [Richard Hipp on Why SQLite Succeeded as a Database](https://changelog.com/podcast/201?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — 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_. The Changelog [Data Wrangling at Slack](https://slack.engineering/data-wrangling-at-slack-f2e0ff633b69?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — The tools and technologies the data engineering team at Slack use to help people in the company quickly and easily answer questions about usage. Ronnie Chen and Diana Pojarstory [Trying Out Bloom Indexes in Postgres](http://www.cybertec.at/trying-out-postgres-bloom-indexes/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — 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. Kaarel Moppeltutorial [How the Most Innovative SaaS Companies Use Data](http://data.heapanalytics.com/how-most-innovative-saas-companies-use-data-podcast?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — How the most innovative SaaS companies out there use (and scale) their data practices. 39 minutes podcast, or a complete transcription to read. Sarah Siwak Jobs [Job Offers Without the Hassle - Try Hired](http://hired.com/?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=petercooperpress&utm_campaign=q4-16-dbweekly) — Sick of pushy recruiters, and dead end interviews? Try Hired to hear from top tier companies, and only talk to relevant companies. Hired In brief [MariaDB Takes On Teradata, Vertica with Column Store](https://www.datanami.com/2016/12/14/mariadb-takes-on-teradata-vertica-with-column-store/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — MariaDB has added a column store to its popular relational database, enabling it to run a new class of petabyte-scale analytical queries. Alex Woodienews [Moving from MongoDB to Couchbase Server](http://blog.couchbase.com/2016/december/moving-from-mongodb-to-couchbase-server-revisited?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Matthew Grovestutorial [Tuning Linux for MongoDB: Automated Tuning on Red Hat and CentOS](https://www.percona.com/blog/2016/12/08/tuning-linux-for-mongodb-automated-tuning-redhat-and-centos/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Tim Vaillancourttutorial [UUID Support in MySQL 8.0](http://mysqlserverteam.com/mysql-8-0-uuid-support/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Catalin Besleagatutorial [Achieving a 300% Speedup in ETL With Apache Spark](https://dzone.com/articles/achieving-a-300-speedup-in-etl-with-apache-spark?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Eric Maynardtutorial [Is your database a bottleneck?](https://www.datadoghq.com/database-monitoring/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=CooperPress&utm_campaign=CooperPress-DBWeekly&utm_content=Databases) — Identify and eliminate bottlenecks w/ metrics from your dbs, load balancers, and everything in between. Datadogtools sponsored [Laying the Foundation for a Data Team](https://monzo.com/blog/2016/11/30/laying-the-foundation-for-a-data-team/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — How UK Fintech startup Monzo are building their data team. Monzostory [Migrating A Time Series Database from Python to Native C](http://siridb.net/blog/migrating-a-tsdb/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Jeroen van der Heijdenstory [Can't Get Satisfaction from Hadoop? Try Analytic Ops](https://www.datanami.com/2016/12/12/cant-satisfaction-hadoop-analytic-ops/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — _“an approach to continuous delivery of analytics results that requires close cross-functional collaboration”_ Datanamiopinion [The Admin Interface Framework](http://www.launchbit.com/taz/11159-6712-111) — Generate the admin interface of your application. Simply run npm install -g lumber-cli then lumber generate to get started. Lumbertools sponsored [sheets-api: Create A REST API Backed by Google Sheets](https://github.com/DataFire-flows/sheets-api?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — The API can be easily run on AWS Lambda with API Gateway. DataFire Flowscode    

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