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Issue 143 — February 24, 2017
Featured
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.
Timothy Prickett Morgan    opinion   
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.
Datanami    opinion   
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.
Salvatore Sanfilippo    story   
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.
VividCortex    sponsored   
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.”
Reynold Xin, Ala Luszczak and Bogdan Raducanu    story   
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.
Arik Fraimovich    tools   
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.
Joshua Drake    video   
How to Plan and Run Events: An Event Management Data Model — The latest in Vertabelo’s relational data modelling series.
Vertabelo    tutorial   
In brief
SQL Server 2016 Developer Edition Now Available in Windows Containers
Microsoft    news   
DataLayer 2017 Conference, Call for Speakers (Austin, TX on May 17)
Compose    news   
Four Ways to Visualize Big Streaming Data Now
Datanami    news   
Forrester: Why Application Monitoring Needs Better Database Monitoring — Hear expert tips on how to fill the gap between APM and the rapidly changing data layer.
SelectStar    sponsored   
Using R with Databases: A Free Course
Big Data University
The Unofficial MySQL 8.0 Optimizer Guide
Morgan Tocker    tutorial   
Upgrading your MySQL Server Farm — A thorough look at what’s involved in upgrading a set of MySQL servers.
Geir Hoydalsvik    tutorial   
Real Time Delivery Updates with Slack, MongoDB Atlas & Tailable Cursors — Creating a custom Slack chat bot using Node.js, MongoDB Atlas, and MongoDB Compass.
Nick Parsons    tutorial   
Aggregations in MongoDB by Example
John O'Connor    tutorial   
An Idiot’s Guide to Fulltext Search in PostgreSQL
Travis Mick    tutorial   
Users Table Mutations: 3 Ways of Building and Altering a 'Users' Table
Raphael Ht    tutorial   
Get Instant REST APIs for Your Database — DreamFactory turns your database into a comprehensive REST API. Free and open source, try it now.
DreamFactory    sponsored   
Testing MongoDB 3.4's Linearizable Reads with Jepsen
The MongoDB Engineering Journal    story   
Why LINQ Beats SQL
Joseph Albahari    opinion   
Neo4j vs Dgraph Benchmarks — Interesting results though take note the source is Dgraph themselves.
Pawan Rawal    opinion   
An Introduction to the MongoDB Database Profiler
Fernando Ipar    tools   
OmniDB 1.6.5: A Web-Based Tool for Database Management and Conversion
Rafael Thofehrn Castro    tools   
A SQLite3 Persistence Layer for Gun — Gun is a decentralized, ‘offline first’ JavaScript graph database.
github.​com    code   
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