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Issue 167 — August 11, 2017
TimescaleDB: An Open-Source Time-Series SQL Database — Optimized for fast ingest, complex queries, and scalability, Timescale is based around PostgreSQL.
Timescale   tools  
LinkedIn's Strategy for Migrating to Its Own Database — LinkedIn’s strategy for migrating one of their internal services (Babylonia) from using Oracle to Espresso, LinkedIn’s own NoSQL database system.
David Max   story  
M202: MongoDB for DBAs - A Free Online Course — After completing this course, you should have a good understanding of how to administer a MongoDB installation in production.
MONGODB   sponsored  
Exploring Presto and Zeppelin for Fast Data Analytics and Visualization — How WalMart use SQL query engine Presto and a look at its performance in some common use cases.
Sandeep Malik   tutorial  
Working with AWS DynamoDB — “The fully managed NoSQL database service DynamoDB is good if you don’t need to worry about scaling and handling large amounts of data.”
Parth Modi   tutorial  
Principles of Sharding for Relational Databases — Opinions on sharding range from “it saved us” to “it was the worst mistake we made. This post looks at the key factors that play into sharding and how you should approach whether it’s right for you.
citusdata   story  
Did Google Send the Big Data Industry on a 10 Year Head Fake? — Even in 2010 Google was recognizing the limits of non-relational systems, and began to course correct seven years ago.
Gary Orenstein   opinion  
MongoDB Performance Issues: Fact or Fiction — A look at some of MongoDB’s common performance issues and where things sit now with the latest version, 3.4.6.
Ken W.​ Alger   opinion  
A Live Demo With a VividCortex Engineer — Join a live demo with a VividCortex engineer to show how the VividCortex solution can eliminate your most critical visibility gaps.
VividCortex   sponsored  
PostgreSQL 10 Beta 3 Released
postgresql.​org   news  
CouchDB 2.1.0 Released
CouchDB   news  
Geographic Analysis in SQL: Measuring Polygon Area from Latitude and Longitude
Sean Cook   tutorial  
Real-Time MySQL Performance Monitoring — Using MySQL monitoring tool Monyog to measure key metrics.
Rob Gravelle   tutorial  
How Docker Containers Helps SQL Server 2017 Shift Deployment to the Developer
Mary Branscombe   story  
The New Math Driving NoSQL Analytics
Alex Woodie   story  
Cassandra vs. MongoDB — Considering the differences between Cassandra vs. MongoDB as the data store for your next project.
scalegrid.​io   opinion  sponsored  
TimescaleDB vs. Postgres for Time-Series Work — The first in a series of performance benchmarks comparing TimescaleDB to other databases for storing and analyzing time-series data.
Rob Kiefer   opinion  
Ask HN: Are ORMs Overkill for SQL Databases?
Hacker News   opinion  
PgHero 2.0: A Performance Dashboard for Postgres
Andrew Kane   tools  
MyCLI: A MySQL/MariaDB Client with Syntax Highlighting and Autocompletion
Kylie Monroe   tools  
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