---
title: "Amazon Aurora Serverless: Databases on Demand"
publication: "DB Weekly"
issue: 182
published_at: "2017-12-01"
canonical_url: "https://dbweekly.com/issues/182"
---

Database Weekly 182   

This week' database news -[Read this on the Web](http://dbweekly.com/issues/182) 

[Database Weekly](http://dbweekly.com) Issue 182 — December 1, 2017     

[A Look at the Graph Database Landscape](https://www.datanami.com/2017/11/30/look-graph-database-landscape/) — Graph databases are the fastest growing category in all of data management, according to DB-Engines.com. Datanaminews [Amazon Aurora Serverless: Databases on Demand](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-amazon-aurora-serverless/) — Aurora is AWS’s MySQL- and Postgres-compatible scalable database service and they’re now working on a pay-as-you-go variant for highly variable workloads. Amazon Web Servicesnews [InfluxDB Internals - Part Two](https://www.influxdata.com/blog/influxdb-internals-101-part-two/) — Last month we shared [part one of this series](https://www.influxdata.com/blog/influxdb-internals-101-part-one/), here’s the second one. Learn how we built the fastest growing open source time series database. InfluxDatasponsored [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/a015b5a7.jpg)](https://www.influxdata.com/blog/influxdb-internals-101-part-two/) [Hello Memgraph: A Real-Time Transactional Graph Database](https://blog.memgraph.com/hello-memgraph-44f51032434a) — Designed for the ‘artificial and machine intelligence’ era, Memgraph is focused on speed and scale and is available in an early access ‘Community Edition’. Dominik Tomicevictools [SQL's Transaction Isolation Levels](http://shiroyasha.io/transaction-isolation-levels-in-postgresql.html) — A look at the four isolation levels for transactions in the SQL standard and, in particular, how they apply to Postgres. Igor Šarčevićtutorial [Amazon Neptune: A Fully Managed Graph Database Service](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-neptune-a-fully-managed-graph-database-service/) — A big week for graph databases, it seems, as Amazon announces a new graph database service for AWS users. Amazon Web Servicesnews [How We Migrated from Heroku PostgreSQL to AWS RDS](https://www.wootric.com/blog/how-we-migrated-from-heroku-postgresql-to-aws-rds/) — A practical look at how a customer survey company moved their main production database from Heroku to Amazon Web Services. Wootricstory [Amazon RDS Now Supports Database Storage Sizes up to 16TB](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/amazon-rds-now-supports-database-storage-size-up-to-16tb-and-faster-scaling-for-mysql-mariadb-oracle-and-postgresql-engines/) — RDS has increased the max storage size from 6 TB up to 16 for a single instance. Amazon Web Servicesnews [New 'H1' EC2 Instances: Fast, Dense Storage for Big Data Applications](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-h1-instances-fast-dense-storage-for-big-data-applications/) — Suited for large MapReduce clusters, distributed file systems, Apache Kafka processing, etc. Amazon Web Servicesnews [BlazingDB and Raising $2.9M from NVIDIA and Samsung](https://blog.blazingdb.com/blazingdb-origins-oh-and-we-just-raised-2-9m-from-nvidia-and-samsung-99cd581e66c7) — BlazingDB is a distributed GPU-accelerated SQL data warehouse. Rodrigo Aramburunews [World-Class Data Engineering with Amazon Redshift](https://intermix.io/training) — Learn from companies like Postmates and Udemy on how they got a fast Redshift cluster. intermix.​iosponsored [NULL in SQL: Indicating the Absence of Data](http://modern-sql.com/concept/null) Markus Winandtutorial [How To Encrypt Traffic to Redis using Spiped on Ubuntu](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-encrypt-traffic-to-redis-with-spiped-on-ubuntu-16-04) DigitalOceantutorial [How Citus Executes Distributed Transactions on Postgres](https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2017/11/22/how-citus-executes-distributed-transactions/) citusdatastory [Replacing Elasticsearch with Rust and SQLite](https://nbsoftsolutions.com/blog/replacing-elasticsearch-with-rust-and-sqlite) — Not something you’d typically want to do but an interesting story nonetheless. Nick Babcockstory [Why Amazon DynamoDB Isn’t for Everyone](https://read.acloud.guru/why-amazon-dynamodb-isnt-for-everyone-and-how-to-decide-when-it-s-for-you-aefc52ea9476) — And how to decide when it’s right for you. Forrest Brazealopinion [Did Spark Really Kill Hadoop?](https://www.kdnuggets.com/2017/11/did-spark-really-kill-hadoop.html) Julia Cookopinion [$20 Free on a New Linode Account](https://welcome.linode.com/db-weekly/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=email&utm_term=db&utm_campaign=db-weekly-sponsored) — Linux cloud hosting starting at 1GB of RAM for $5/mo. Get $20 credit on a new account. Linode Cloud Hostingsponsored tools [tuql: Automatically Create a GraphQL Server From a SQLite Database](https://github.com/bradleyboy/tuql) Brad Dailytools    

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