---
title: "RethinkDB lives on / A 'serverless' database / MongoDB security testing tool"
publication: "DB Weekly"
issue: 141
published_at: "2017-02-10"
canonical_url: "https://dbweekly.com/issues/141"
---

Database Weekly 141   . 

This week's database news -[Read this on the Web](http://dbweekly.com/issues/141) 

[Database Weekly](http://dbweekly.com) Issue 141 — February 10, 2017     

Featured [mongoaudit: A MongoDB Auditing and Pentesting Tool](https://github.com/stampery/mongoaudit?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Secure your Mongo installation with this security testing tool that looks for misconfigurations, known vulnerabilities, etc. Stampery Inc.​ tools [The Liberation of RethinkDB](https://www.joyent.com/blog/the-liberation-of-rethinkdb?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — [Back in October](http://dbweekly.com/issues/125) we sadly reported the company behind RethinkDB was closing. The project, however, lives on, as explained here. Bryan Cantrillnews [Superset: How Airbnb Scales Data Access and Visual Insights](https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/superset-scaling-data-access-and-visual-insights-at-airbnb-3ce3e9b88a7f?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Now open sourced ([GitHub repo](https://github.com/airbnb/superset)), Superset is a powerful data exploration platform. The animated GIFs on [its README](https://github.com/airbnb/superset) show off the potential well. Airbnb Engineeringtools [[Free Tool\] Square Root Staffing Law Workbook](https://www.vividcortex.com/resources/square-root-staffing-law-workbook?utm_campaign=DB%20Weekly&utm_source=ppc) — 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. VividCortexsponsored [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/a87082ae.png)](https://www.vividcortex.com/resources/square-root-staffing-law-workbook?utm_campaign=DB%20Weekly&utm_source=ppc) [Here's How Evernote Moved 3 Petabytes of Data to Google's Cloud](http://www.pcworld.com/article/3167594/data-center-cloud/heres-how-evernote-moved-3-petabytes-of-data-to-googles-cloud.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — 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. PCWorldstory [Building A Serverless App with A Serverless Database](https://fauna.com/blog/serverless-cloud-database?yc=&utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — FaunaDB claims to be ‘the first truly serverless database.’ An odd claim, but this will help you see how it works. Fauna [Joining A Billion Rows 20x Faster Than Apache Spark](http://www.snappydata.io/blog/joining-billion-rows-faster-than-apache-spark?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — [SnappyData](http://www.snappydata.io/) 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. Sumedh Walestory [PostgreSQL 9.6.2, 9.5.6, 9.4.11, 9.3.16 and 9.2.20 Released](https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1733/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — 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. PostgreSQLnews In brief [Wanted (Badly): Big Data Engineers](https://www.datanami.com/2017/02/08/wanted-badly-big-data-engineers/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A report ‘confirms surging demand for data scientists, engineers and analysts’. Datanaminews [Put your DB into overdrive on Linode’s SSD servers.](https://welcome.linode.com/db-weekly/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=email&utm_term=db&utm_campaign=db-weekly-sponsored) — Whatever your preferred DB, get better performance by loading it on Linode. Use promo code DB20 for $20 credit. linodesponsored [How to Enforce Uniqueness of A Compound Primary Key Made Up of Two Foreign Keys](http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/163681/how-to-enforce-uniqueness-of-compound-primary-key-made-up-of-two-foreign-keys-to/163688?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) DBA Stack Exchangetutorial [Everything You Need to Know About MySQL Partitions](http://www.vertabelo.com/blog/technical-articles/everything-you-need-to-know-about-mysql-partitions?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Vertabelotutorial [Building a Performant API using Go and Cassandra](http://blog.getstream.io/building-a-performant-api-using-go-and-cassandra/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A walkthrough of building a RESTful Web API that uses the Cassandra NoSQL database. Ian Douglastutorial [How SendGrid Backs Up Riak and Solr Data](https://sendgrid.com/blog/how-to-back-up-riak-and-solr-data/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Brad Culbersontutorial [Beautiful SQL: Lateral Unnesting of Array Columns](https://blog.jooq.org/2017/02/10/beautiful-sql-lateral-unnesting-of-array-columns/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) JavaOOQtutorial [Graphing Intent: Inside a Consumer Tracking Database](https://www.datanami.com/2017/02/07/graphing-intent-inside-tracking-database/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Datanamistory [Indexing in an Actor-Oriented Database [PDF\]](https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8cdb/edc491cf77b0a57008108ea7f4c05cc5660e.pdf?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — An academic paper. Bernstein, Dashti, Kiefer and Maierstory [Exactly Once: Why It's Such a Big Deal for Apache Kafka](https://www.datanami.com/2017/02/09/exactly-big-deal-apache-kafka/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — “exactly once guaranteed delivery of messages” is coming to Kafka soon. Datanamistory [Postgres-XL: MPP and Horizontally Scalable PostgreSQL](https://2ndquadrant.com/en/resources/postgres-xl/) — Flexible enough to handle OLAP & OLTP workloads. Horizontally Scalable with all the features of PostgreSQL. 2ndQuadrant PostgreSQL Productstools sponsored [RavenDB Embedded at Massive Scales](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjqzrfvRbQQ&utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — An open source .NET NoSQL database. YouTubevideo [Go Data Science with Daniel Whitenack [podcast\]](https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2017/02/09/go-data-science-with-daniel-whitenack/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Daniel Whitenack explains the workflow of a data scientist and discusses why Go is suited to it. Software Engineering Daily [Advanced SQL Recipes](http://www.silota.com/docs/recipes/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A (growing) compendium of advanced SQL tricks you can adopt to jump-start your next analysis. Silota    

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