---
title: "#172: The Weight of Relational Databases - Time for Multi-Model?"
publication: "DB Weekly"
issue: 172
published_at: "2017-09-15"
canonical_url: "https://dbweekly.com/issues/172"
---

Database Weekly 172   

This week's database news -[Read this on the Web](http://dbweekly.com/issues/172) 

[Database Weekly](http://dbweekly.com) Issue 172 — September 15, 2017     

[The Weight of Relational Databases: Time for Multi-Model?](https://medium.com/@luca.olivari/the-weight-of-relational-databases-time-for-multi-model-20c1fb79bc58?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A quick thought piece on the increasing role for polyglotism in database systems as needs become more complex. Luca Olivaritutorial [Postgres's Workings in One Picture](http://blog.postgresql-consulting.com/2017/09/postgresql-workings-in-one-picture.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — An interesting ‘infographic’ style image showing the various components of Postgres and how they stack together. Alexey Lesovskytutorial [Data Sheet: Database Performance Monitoring](https://www.vividcortex.com/hubfs/VividCortex_Overview_Data_Sheet.pdf?utm_campaign=DB%20Weekly&utm_source=ppc&utm_medium=Overview-%20DS) — VividCortex is the best way to improve your database performance, efficiency, and uptime. VividCortexsponsored [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/0792eba5.png)](https://www.vividcortex.com/hubfs/VividCortex_Overview_Data_Sheet.pdf?utm_campaign=DB%20Weekly&utm_source=ppc&utm_medium=Overview-%20DS) [Injecting a Chess Engine into Amazon Redshift](http://www.michaelburge.us/2017/09/10/injecting-shellcode-to-speed-up-amazon-redshift.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Redshift is an SQL-based database with a Postgres-style frontend and curiously you can integrate compiled C code with it as in this extensive example. Michael Burgestory [Database Systems Reading List](https://github.com/jarulraj/databaseology?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Links to a variety of 38 categorized papers on database management systems topics. Joy Arulrajcode [Over 4000 ElasticSearch Servers Found Hosting PoS Malware Files](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-4-000-elasticsearch-servers-found-hosting-pos-malware-files/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Catalin Cimpanunews [A Sports School Data Model](http://www.vertabelo.com/blog/technical-articles/a-sports-school-data-model?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — The latest in Vertabelo’s relational data modelling series. Vertabelotutorial [A Four-Phased Approach to Building an Optimal Data Warehouse](https://www.datanami.com/2017/09/12/four-phased-approach-building-optimal-data-warehouse/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Datanamitutorial [Partitioning Behavior of DynamoDB](https://blog.codeship.com/partitioning-behavior-of-dynamodb/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Parth Moditutorial [Get an intro to MongoDB with our Accelerator Kit](https://www.mongodb.com/mongodb-accelerator-kit?jmp=cpress&utm_campaign=WW_CP_newsletter_sponsorship_FY17Q3&utm_content=sponsored&utm_medium=display&utm_source=dbweekly0915) — For a limited time, we're making our best resources for learning MongoDB available for free & on demand. MONGODBsponsored [How We Optimize Apache Spark Jobs](http://rea.tech/how-we-optimize-apache-spark-apps/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Henry Hustory [Enhancing Relational Models with Graph Processing in SQL Server 2017](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KkFmSN57W0&utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Terry McCannvideo [Bringing DevOps Practices to Database Administrators](https://hackernoon.com/bringing-devops-practices-to-database-administrators-fdfb7d2a1503?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Chris Chinchilla [The Ultimate Guide to Oracle Indexes: Improve Your SQL Skills](https://www.databasestar.com/oracle-sql-indexes?utm_source=CooperPress&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=indexguide) — Learn all about index types, index scans, when to use each index type, and more in this article. Database Starsponsored [read-mongo-logs: A Tool to Tail Mongo Database Logs](https://github.com/kevinburke/read-mongo-logs?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Kevin Burketools [Citus 7: Transactions, Framework Integration, and Postgres 10](https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2017/09/07/citus-7-distributed-transactions-frameworks-and-pg10/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Citus extends Postgres with extra sharding features and now has Postgres 10 support. citusdatatools [Redisq: An Easy, Reliable Java Library for Async Messaging in Redis](https://blog.grakn.ai/redisq-an-easy-to-use-reliable-java-library-for-asynchronous-messaging-in-redis-28a6905a5ce3?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) GRAKN.​AIcode    

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