Building A Scalable Time-Series Database on Postgres — TimescaleDB is a new open-source time-series database optimized for fast ingest and complex queries.

SQLite 3.18 Released — PRAGMA optimize has been added, a mechanism for attempting to optimize the database and improve long-term query performance.

Apache Quickstep: A SQL-Based Performance-Focused DB Engine — Originating in 2011, but now being incubated at Apache, Quickstep competitively runs SSB and TPC-H benchmarks on a single node and is designed to support the latest in hardware technology for faster performance. GitHub repo.

Webinar: Better Azure SQL Performance — Learn how to reduce development times by getting a better understanding of how your Azure SQL workloads are really performing. Register now.

A Data Model for an Electric Power Distribution System — Vertabelo's database modelling scenarios continue to get more niche but it's always interesting to see how a professional database designer approaches the challenges involved.

Business Intelligence Performance Benchmarks with Google BigQuery — A deeper look at Google’s BigQuery, and how it stacks up in the BI-on-Big Data ecosystem.

Redis Flash: Double Performance on NVMe SSDs — Redis Flash on AWS I3 instances (which have NVMe SSDs) gets up to 2.5x performance compared to on I2s.