Migrating Oracle Databases to Postgres on Amazon RDS — See how to migrate to PostgreSQL on RDS in three steps.

Searching Flight Data with Neo4j — A graph database is ideal for modelling data like this.

Dynamo, Citus, and Tradeoffs in Distributed Databases — Often there’s debate between relational databases and distributed ones (which are more typically NoSQL). Here’s some thoughts on the benefits of each from one of the creators of Dynamo.

Autoscaling for your Heroku dynos — Automatically scale up and down to handle increased workloads and avoid wasting money on idle resources.

Scuttlebot: Open-Source Peer-to-Peer Log Store — For use as a database, identity provider, and messaging system. Features global replication and end-to-end encryption.

Ora2Pg: A Tool to Move Oracle Databases to PostgreSQL — A free tool used to migrate an Oracle or MySQL database to a Postgres-compatible schema.

M3DB: A Distributed Time Series Database Using M3TSZ Compression — Written in Go.