---
title: "#164: Redis 4.0 GA Released"
publication: "DB Weekly"
issue: 164
published_at: "2017-07-21"
canonical_url: "https://dbweekly.com/issues/164"
---

Database Weekly 164   

This week's database news -[Read this on the Web](http://dbweekly.com/issues/164) 

[Database Weekly](http://dbweekly.com) Issue 164 — July 21, 2017     

[Redis 4.0 GA Released](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/redis-db/5Kh3viziYGQ/58TKLwX0AAAJ?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — The popular data structure server takes a step forward with several key improvements including a new replication engine and official support for modules. Salvatore Sanfilippotools [How Microsoft Brought SQL Server To Linux](https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/17/how-microsoft-brought-sql-server-to-linux/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Frederic Lardinois talks to Rohan Kumar, general manager of Microsoft’s Database Systems group, to learn how his team _“managed to bring an extremely complex piece of software like SQL Server to Linux”_. TechCrunchstory [A Real-Time Database Survey: The Architecture of Meteor, RethinkDB, Parse & Firebase](https://medium.baqend.com/real-time-databases-explained-why-meteor-rethinkdb-parse-and-firebase-dont-scale-822ff87d2f87?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A comprehensive overview of the current state of push-oriented databases. Baqend Blogopinion [Announcing: How to Earn More as a Software Developer](https://simpleprogrammer.com/products/careerguide?utm_source=coopermedia&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=career-guide&utm_content=2017-07-career-guide-launch-db-weekly) — Technical knowledge alone isn't enough—increase your income by leveling up your "soft skills." Learn new skills faster, command more respect, find work you love, and earn what you're worth. Get the book for $0.99 (48 hours only). Simple Programmersponsored [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/6803b117.png)](https://simpleprogrammer.com/products/careerguide?utm_source=coopermedia&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=career-guide&utm_content=2017-07-career-guide-launch-db-weekly) [Cosette: An Automated SQL 'Solver'](http://cosette.cs.washington.edu/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — An automated prover for checking equivalences of SQL queries. [Repo here](https://github.com/uwdb/cosette). University of Washingtontools [BayesLite: BayesDB on SQLite for Probability Querying](https://github.com/probcomp/bayeslite?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A Bayesian database table for [querying the probable implications of data](http://probcomp.org/bayesdb/) as easily as SQL databases query the data itself. MIT Probabilistic Computing Projectcode [PostgreSQL 10 Beta 2 Released](https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1763/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Postgres 10 is shaping up to be a great release, and the latest beta version is now available. PostgreSQLnews [First Release Candidate of SQL Server 2017 Now Available](https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/dataplatforminsider/2017/07/17/first-release-candidate-of-sql-server-2017-now-available/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Microsoftnews [Announcing RethinkDB 2.3.6: The First Release Under Community Governance](https://rethinkdb.com/blog/2.3.6-release/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) RethinkDBnews [Attend Google Developer Days — Europe 2017 in Krakow, Poland](https://goo.gl/zigkNh) — Join us at #GDDEurope, where we will be covering the latest developer updates and best practices. Google, Inc.​ sponsored [Microsoft Prepares SQL Server 2017 for Linux and Containers](https://thenewstack.io/sql-server-2017-brings-microsofts-database-linux-container-worlds/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) The New Stacknews [ArangoDB 3.2 Released](https://www.arangodb.com/2017/07/arangodb-3-2-rocksdb-pregel-fault-tolerant-foxx-satellite-collections/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) ArangoDBnews [Using ReBloom, A Bloom Filter Datatype for Redis](https://redislabs.com/blog/rebloom-bloom-filter-datatype-redis/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A look at how Bloom filters work and how to use them in Redis. Mark Nunbergtutorial [How I Reduced My DB Server Load in Rails by 80%](https://schneems.com/2017/07/18/how-i-reduced-my-db-server-load-by-80/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Richard Schneemantutorial [How to Migrate Your Heroku Postgres Database to Amazon RDS](https://www.lewagon.com/blog/how-to-migrate-your-heroku-postgres-database-to-amazon-rds?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Sébastien Sauniertutorial [IBM Bolsters Spark Ties with Latest SQL Engine](https://www.datanami.com/2017/07/18/ibm-bolsters-spark-ties-latest-sql-engine/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) George Leopoldnews [MySQL 8.0.2: Introducing Window Functions](http://mysqlserverteam.com/mysql-8-0-2-introducing-window-functions/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — SQL window functions, or analytic functions as they are also sometimes called, are now available in 8.0.2. Dag Wanviknews [How to Size Your MongoDB Clusters](https://thenewstack.io/size-mongodb-clusters/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Susan Halltutorial [Why Did So Many Startups Choose MongoDB?](https://www.nemil.com/mongo/1.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Nemil Dalalopinion [Database Performance Monitoring Buyer’s Guide](https://www.vividcortex.com/resources/database-performance-monitoring-buyers-guide?utm_campaign=DB%20Weekly&utm_source=ppc&utm_medium=DB%20Monitoring%20Guide) — This guide is designed to aid when evaluating database monitoring solutions for your unique environment. VividCortexsponsored [Building Real-Time Interactions with Spark](https://spoddutur.github.io/spark-notes/build-real-time-interations-with-spark?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Sruthi Podduturtutorial [Vedis: An Embeddable Redis-Inspired Datastore Engine](http://vedis.symisc.net/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Imagine Redis without the networking layer and as a C library. 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