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title: "#155: Google Spanner: Becoming a SQL System"
publication: "DB Weekly"
issue: 155
published_at: "2017-05-19"
canonical_url: "https://dbweekly.com/issues/155"
---

Database Weekly 155   . 

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[Database Weekly](http://dbweekly.com) Issue 155 — May 19, 2017     

Featured [Google's 'Cloud Spanner' Is Now Production Ready](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/05/Cloud-Spanner-is-now-production-ready-let-the-migrations-begin.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A globally-distributed relational database service with ACID transactions and SQL semantics. [WIRED’s writeup](https://dbweekly.com/link/2720/web) (from Feburary) gives the bigger picture of why it’s a big deal. Google Cloud Platform Blogtools [Google BigQuery Now Offers 10GB of Free Storage](https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2017/05/try-google-bigquery-today-now-with-10gb-of-free-storage?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — 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. Google Cloud Platformnews [PostgreSQL 10 Beta 1 Released](https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1749/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A big release is on the way later this year featuring logical replication and native table partitioning. Here’s [slides covering the changes](http://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/features.pdf), plus a look at [incompatible changes.](http://paquier.xyz/postgresql-2/postgres-10-incompatible-changes/) PostgresQLnews [Whitepaper: 5 Steps to Agile Database Management](https://selectstar.io/campaigns/mini-pages/5-steps-to-a-more-agile-database-management.html) — Database Management is years behind software development. Here’s how to bring your DBs up to speed. SelectStarsponsored [Google Spanner: Becoming a SQL System](http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3056103&utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — 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). ACM / Googlestory [Badger: A High-Perf Key/Value Storage Engine](https://open.dgraph.io/post/badger/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast key-value store, written natively in Go. [GitHub repo.](https://github.com/dgraph-io/badger) Dgraphcode [Neo4j 3.2 Released with Multi Datacentre Support](https://neo4j.com/blog/neo4j-3-2-ga-release/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — 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. Neo4jnews In brief [Committers Talk Hadoop 3 at Apache Big Data](https://www.datanami.com/2017/05/18/committers-talk-hadoop-3-apache-big-data/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Focusing mostly on the forthcoming addition of erasure coding to HDFS which is well explained here. Datanaminews [Enhancements and What's New in Hadoop 3.0](https://www.edureka.co/blog/hadoop-3/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A brief overview of incoming changes in Hadoop 3 and their benefits. Shubham Sinhanews [How to migrate from RDBMS to MongoDB](https://resources.mongodb.com/migrating-to-mongodb?jmp=cpress&utm_campaign=WW_CP_newsletter_sponsorship_FY17Q2&utm_content=sponsored&utm_medium=display&utm_source=dbweekly0519) — Learn why today's most innovative companies are migrating to MongoDB. MONGODBsponsored [The Many Faces of DISTINCT in Postgres](https://medium.com/statuscode/the-many-faces-of-distinct-in-postgresql-c52490de5954?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Haki Benitatutorial [Playing with SQL Server 2017's 'SQL Graph'](http://sqlservercode.blogspot.com/2017/05/sql-server-2017-sql-graph.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Denis Gobotutorial [10 Techniques to Boost Your Data Modeling](https://dzone.com/articles/10-techniques-to-boost-your-data-modeling?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Shelby Blitztutorial [The Motivation for Native Graph Databases](https://www.datanami.com/2017/05/17/motivation-native-graph-databases/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Jim Webberopinion [Crunching Machine Learning And Databases Together on GPUs](https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/05/08/crunching-machine-learning-databases-together-gpus/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A look at accelerating relational DB processing with GPUs. Timothy Prickett Morganstory [CIOs Growing Weary of Database Lock-In, Increasingly Buying Into Open Source](http://www.techrepublic.com/article/cios-growing-weary-of-database-lock-in-increasingly-buying-into-open-source/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Oracle is slipping in its hold on the database market, but it’s going to take a long time to topple. Matt Asayopinion [JSONata: A Declarative Syntax for Querying JSON Data](https://pusher.com/sessions/meetup/london-node-user-group/jsonata-a-declarative-syntax-for-querying-your-json-data?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Andrew Colemanvideo [ToroDB: A Layer That Turns Postgres Into a NoSQL Database](https://github.com/torodb/server?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) ToroDBtools [SQLPad: Webapp to Run SQL Queries and Visualize Results](http://rickbergfalk.github.io/sqlpad/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Run SQL in your browser, chart the results. Supports MySQL, SQL Server and Vertica. Rick Bergfalktools [Manage all your Database-as-a-service needs in one place](https://www.manifold.co/?utm_source=db-weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=manifold-2017-wk-20&utm_content=db-weekly-3) — Manifold is your hub for amazing developer services, like JawsDB and RedisGreen Manifoldsponsored [SQL Notebook: A Windows App to Explore Tabular Data](https://sqlnotebook.com/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — [Related Hacker News discussion.](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14300038) Brian Lufttools [Trinity: A High Performance, C++ Search Library](https://medium.com/@markpapadakis/introducing-trinity-a-modern-high-performance-elegant-ir-search-library-a1a3b4e287a7?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A building block for your own search engines. Mark Papadakiscode    

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