mongoaudit: A MongoDB Auditing and Pentesting Tool — Secure your Mongo installation with this security testing tool that looks for misconfigurations, known vulnerabilities, etc.

The Liberation of RethinkDB — Back in October we sadly reported the company behind RethinkDB was closing. The project, however, lives on, as explained here.

Superset: How Airbnb Scales Data Access and Visual Insights — Now open sourced (GitHub repo), Superset is a powerful data exploration platform. The animated GIFs on its README show off the potential well.

[Free Tool] Square Root Staffing Law Workbook — This free Excel workbook uses the square root staffing law to estimate the amount of capacity users need to provision to provide uniform quality of service at a higher load than their systems currently handle.

Here's How Evernote Moved 3 Petabytes of Data to Google's Cloud — Last year Evernote decided that it wanted to move away from running its own data centers and start using the public cloud to operate its popular note taking service.

Building A Serverless App with A Serverless Database — FaunaDB claims to be ‘the first truly serverless database.’ An odd claim, but this will help you see how it works.

Joining A Billion Rows 20x Faster Than Apache Spark — SnappyData is an open source in-memory platform built on top of Spark. Here it’s claimed it can benchmark 20x faster than Spark at joining two columns over a billion rows.

PostgreSQL 9.6.2, 9.5.6, 9.4.11, 9.3.16 and 9.2.20 Released — This group release includes fixes that prevent data corruption issues in index builds and in write-ahead-log replay situations, and patches over 75 other reported bugs.