Google Spanner Inspires CockroachDB To Outrun It — In a database market ripe for change, Cockroach has the potential to be Yahoo’s Hadoop and HDFS to Google’s MapReduce and Google File System.

Data Opportunities Slipping Through the Cracks — Most companies still struggle to process and analyze the huge amounts of data they have access to, making the database industry ripe for new entrants and new solutions.

Redis on the Raspberry Pi: Adventures in Unaligned Lands — The creator of Redis talks about how he sees Redis working on the Raspberry Pi and how he’s made them work better together in rich technical detail.

Practical Scalability Analysis with the Universal Scalability Law — This eBook introduces scalability analysis using Dr. Gunther’s Universal Scalability Law, which models & predicts how systems perform, & illustrates deep truths about scalability. This book outlines why systems fail to scale well & what to do about it.

Processing a 'Trillion Rows' Per Second on a Single Machine.. Or Not — This blog post describes our experience debugging a failing test case caused by a cross join query running “too fast.”

Redash: Easily Visualize and Share Data from Any Source — An open source alternative to traditional BI suites built up of a sandbox-style environment for SQL queries and a dashboard/visualization tool.

How PostgreSQL Is Tested — Want to learn how databases get tested and, in particular, Postgres? This talk from PGConf US digs in to the testing processes the Postgres project uses.

How to Plan and Run Events: An Event Management Data Model — The latest in Vertabelo’s relational data modelling series.