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Issue 178 — October 27, 2017
TileDB: A Multi-Dimensional Array Data Management System — A database that started life at MIT and Intel that’s designed for storing massive dense and sparse multi-dimensional array data.
TileDB, Inc.​   tools  
ELI5: How Does A Database Handle 1B Users? — It was interesting to see a popular question on database scaling on Reddit’s ‘Explain Like I’m 5’ sub-Reddit this week.
Reddit   story  
Diagnose query latency with Datadog — To get to the bottom of database performance issues, you need high-resolution data from all your systems. See metrics from all your database instances, client applications, load balancers, and more with Datadog.
Datadog   sponsored  
Postgres 10 vs. TimescaleDB for Time-Series Data — PostgreSQL 10 promises an easier partitioning mechanism to help scale for big data. But how does that compare to TimescaleDB for time-series workloads?
Erik Nordström   opinion  
Amazon Aurora Now with PostgreSQL Compatibility — AWS Aurora which helps you grow beyond the 6TB limit of RDS is now generally available for Postgres on top of RDS.
Jeff Barr   news  
How to Dump Google Analytics for SQL in 3 Hours — A look at using cloud services to track requests to a tracking pixel and then using BigQuery to analyze the results.
Michael Lugassy   tutorial  
Open-Source ML Server 'PredictionIO' Gets Apache Promotion — Apache PredictionIO, an open source machine learning server and toolset, is now a ‘top level’ Apache project.
Datanami   news  
Postgres Domain Integrity In Depth — An extensive write up about ways to keep your data ‘squeaky clean’ by way of integrity constraints. There’s a lot to learn from here.
Joe Nelson   tutorial  
World-Class Data Engineering with Amazon Redshift — Join us on Nov 17 in San Francisco for 2.5 hours private training. Get $100 off with the code “DBWEEKLY”.
intermix.​io   sponsored  
SQLite 3.21.0 Released — Mostly tweaks, fixes, and optimizations.
SQLite   news  
7 Keys to Better MySQL Performance
Peter Zaitsev   tutorial  
Real-Time Databases Explained: Why Meteor, RethinkDB, Parse and Firebase Don't Scale — There’s an article covering the same ground.
Wolfram Wingerath   video  
The Best Bits of Postgres 10 for Developers — A brief overview of some favourite developer-focused features in Postgres 10.
Kaarel Moppel   opinion  
Data Squeeze: Hadoop Utility to Compact Small Files
expediaincecommerceplatform.​github.​io   tools  
GoCD - Open Source Continuous Delivery Server — Open source continuous delivery tool specializing in advanced workflow modeling and dependency management.
GoCD   tools  sponsored  
Reflow: A Language and Runtime for Distributed, Incremental Data Processing in the Cloud
Grail   code  
Hyrise: An In-Memory Hybrid Storage Engine — Further explanation.
Hyrise   code  
Spydra: Ephemeral Hadoop Clusters using Google Compute Platform
Spotify   code  
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