Datasette Publish: A Webapp for Publishing CSV Files as an Online Database — A tool that turns one or more CSV files into an online database with a JSON API, powered by SQLite and the Zeit Now deployment platform.

Bistro: A Lightweight Column-Oriented Data Processing Engine — Written in Java, Bistro is an interesting new light-weight column-oriented data processing engine based on a novel column-oriented logical data model.

Use SQL in MongoDB? But of Course You Can. We'll Show You How — And there's so much more to discover. Like SQL Import & Export. Or our innovative Query Code that lets you instantly generate code from our Query Builder in Node.js, Python, or C#.

SQL Keys in Depth — An attempt at boiling down the various arguments, pros and cons of different types of keys, whether they’re auto-incrementing integers, UUIDs, or other things.

Fueled by Kafka, Stream Processing Poised for Growth — Once a niche technique used only by large organizations, stream processing has emerged as a popular way to deal with massive amounts of freshly generated data.

How Alibaba Created a Stream System with Millions of Feeds — A first hand look at how Chinese ecommerce company Alibaba scales using its own custom extensions to PostgreSQL.

Using Redis as a True Distributed, Fault-Tolerant Database — The ‘trick’ here is that you’re not using Redis per se, but Yugabyte, a database that supports the Redis protocol and can be used in-place of it.

How We Sped Up Eventually-Consistent Database Global Syncs with Caching — They reduced an already solid time of 1 second for global consistency to 0.25 seconds by adding a volatile cache.

Don't Throw Out Your Algorithms Book Just Yet: Classical Data Structures That Can Outperform Learned Indexes — An interesting response to this paper we linked to last year about machine learning based indexing systems.

Graphile: Instant GraphQL APIs for Postgres Databases — Auto-discovers tables, columns, relations, procedures and more, then runs a high-performance secure GraphQL API server that adheres to best practices.

What's The Effect of 'Meltdown' on Postgres's Performance? — How have the fixes for the recent Spectre and Meltdown CPU vulnerabilities affected Postgres performance? This first look suggests about a 7% hit.

Using SymmetricDS to Replicate Your Database Structure — An open source database replication tool that can be used to keep heterogeneous databases in sync.

Scaling YugaByte DB to Millions of Reads and Writes — An open source database that supports Cassandra and Redis APIs.