SQL Server is DB-Engines' DBMS of 2016 — DB-Engines tracks the popularity of database systems and found Microsoft’s SQL Server grew most in popularity in 2016. The release of SQL Server 2016 and the Linux port likely had a major effect.

Dgraph v0.7.1: A Low Latency Graph Database — Bills itself as ‘the most production ready graph database’. Strong claims versus Neo4j, but the feature set is certainly interesting.

SQLite 3.16.0 Released — Uses 9% fewer CPU cycles, fixes a long standard LEFT JOIN bug, adds experimental support for PRAGMA functions, has faster LIKE and GLOB matching when using multiple wildcards, and more.

Explore your memory use over time with RedisGreen — RedisGreen's hosting and monitoring service maps your memory usage and tracks how keys in your database behave over time.

RocksDB: A Persistent Key-Value Store for Flash and RAM Storage — From Facebook comes a library forming the core of a fast memory-based key-value store. It has a Log-Structured-Merge-Database (LSM) design with flexible tradeoffs and multi-threaded compactions.

Playing with 80 Million Amazon Product Ratings Using Apache Spark — An attempt to show manipulating big data can be as easy as performing an analysis on a dataset with only a few records.

BigDL: Distributed Deep Learning Library for Apache Spark — Lets you write deep learning apps as standard Spark programs to run on Spark or Hadoop clusters.

Solving a Classic Puzzle using Postgres and Advanced SQL — Love puzzles and got quite a bit of time on your hands? This is a fascinating journey.