Benchmarking Elasticsearch at 1 Million Writes per Second — Elasticsearch is now one of the most widely used document databases, but what does it take to get to 1 million writes per second? 15 AWS m4.2xlarge nodes, it seems.

Citus 6.2: A Multi-Tenant Database Built on Postgres — Citus is an open source database built on top of Postgres, ideal for app devs building multi-tenant B2B applications & real-time analytics.

Monitoring Databases: A Product Comparison — Percona’s Manjot Singh reviews five of the top database monitoring solutions on the market. Get his breakdown in this blog.

Spark's New Deep Learning Tricks — Deep Learning Pipelines is a library for using Apache Spark to run deep learning workflows for image or other unstructured data analysis.

First Beta of RavenDB 4.0 Released — RavenDB is an open source (AGPL) NoSQL database for .NET. Licensing and pricing for the commercial version has also been announced.

An Example of Handling 100GB+ of Data with Node and MySQL — RisingStack uses MySQL to store data for its Trace monitoring tool. Here they show how MySQL’s table partitioning helps keep things scaling.

Dates for MongoDB Europe 2017 announced — Introducing Shard N: a super-charged technical track for a very deep dive into MongoDB (wizard level only).

PG-Strom: SSD-To-GPU Direct SQL Execution for Postgres — Use GPUs to accelarate sequential scan and join/aggregate functions in Postgres. Slidedeck with more info.

Migrating Procedural SQL Code with the AWS Schema Conversion Tool — See how easy it is to migrate procedural code from Oracle to PostgreSQL using AWS SCT.

How to find and fix the slowest code in your .NET application — Find bottlenecks in your code or database & boost performance with ANTS Performance Profiler. Try it free now.