Google's 'Cloud Spanner' Is Now Production Ready — A globally-distributed relational database service with ACID transactions and SQL semantics. WIRED’s writeup (from Feburary) gives the bigger picture of why it’s a big deal.

Google BigQuery Now Offers 10GB of Free Storage — BigQuery has long provided an easy way to analyze massively large datasets and now there’s a free storage tier to make getting started even easier.

PostgreSQL 10 Beta 1 Released — A big release is on the way later this year featuring logical replication and native table partitioning. Here’s slides covering the changes, plus a look at incompatible changes.

Whitepaper: 5 Steps to Agile Database Management — Database Management is years behind software development. Here’s how to bring your DBs up to speed.

Google Spanner: Becoming a SQL System — An academic paper presented at SIGMOD 17 that digs into the specifics of the Spanner globally-distributed data management system Google uses (as mentioned above).

Badger: A High-Perf Key/Value Storage Engine — An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast key-value store, written natively in Go. GitHub repo.

Neo4j 3.2 Released with Multi Datacentre Support — It’s now easier to run the graph database across continents. There are also production governance (e.g. Kerberos auth), query monitoring, and performance improvements.