Google Unveils Cloud Spanner: A Global Database Service — A globally-distributed relational database service with ACID transactions and SQL semantics. WIRED’s writeup gives the bigger picture of why this is a big deal.

Is PostgreSQL Good Enough (For Almost Everything)? — Can Postgres be ‘good enough’ for all sorts of different use cases? Time series, object stores, pubsub, realtime, and more are covered here.

Tarantool: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly — A practical demonstration of Tarantool, an open source in-memory NoSQL database and Lua app server.

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Microsoft Azure DocumentDB Goes After MongoDB Users — Microsoft is encouraging MongoDB users to switch to their Azure DocumentDB service, promising no rewrites would be necessary due to its MongoDB protocol support.

A Look at Instapaper's Outage Cause and Recovery Process — Bookmarking service Instapaper experienced a 30 hour outage. Here’s the story of how their MySQL database failed, why, and how it was resolved.

'Climbing' Big Data With Virtual Reality — Why just look at graphs on a screen when you can go into virtual reality and ‘climb’ your data? Video here.

PostgreSQL At 10TB and Beyond — Chris Travers discusses what happens when managing over 10 terabytes of data in PostgreSQL. Does it scale and what kinds of problems need to be resolved?