---
title: "#188: It's About Time For Time Series Databases"
publication: "DB Weekly"
issue: 188
published_at: "2018-01-26"
canonical_url: "https://dbweekly.com/issues/188"
---

Database Weekly 188   

This week's database news -[Read this on the Web](http://dbweekly.com/issues/188) 

[Database Weekly](http://dbweekly.com) Issue 188 — January 26, 2018     

[It's About Time For Time Series Databases](https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/01/25/time-time-series-databases/) — _“Nobody wants to have large grain snapshots of data for any dataset that is actually comprised of a continuous stream of data.”_ Timothy Prickett Morganopinion [UnQLite: An Embeddable NoSQL Database Engine](https://unqlite.org/) — An old project that has just been ‘revived’ with fresh development. Like SQLite, it reads and writes directly to normal files on disk and is embeddable/’in-process’. Symisc Systemstools [LinkedIn's Gobblin: A Framework for 'Gobbling' Big Data with Ease](https://thenewstack.io/linkedins-gobblin-open-source-framework-gobbling-big-data-ease/) — Interview with LinkedIn’s Abhishek Tiwari about [Gobblin](https://gobblin.apache.org/), an open source data ingestion framework being incubated at Apache. Michelle Gienowstory [MySQL Client for iPhone & iPad](http://mysqlipadclient.com/appstore.php) — SQLPro for MySQL, one of the leading macOS database clients has been released for iOS. Features include autocomplete, multiple query execution, editable results and more. Hankinsoft Developmentsponsored [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/89e7d86d.png)](http://mysqlipadclient.com/appstore.php) [Practical Tradeoffs in Google Cloud Spanner, Azure Cosmos DB and YugaByte DB](https://blog.yugabyte.com/practical-tradeoffs-in-google-cloud-spanner-azure-cosmos-db-and-yugabyte-db-ce720e07c0fd) — A deep dive into the consistency-availability tradeoff imposed by CAP which is only applicable during failure conditions. Sid Choudhuryopinion [An Update on Redis Streams Development](http://antirez.com/news/116) — The next major version of the popular data structure server should include [streams](http://antirez.com/news/114) as a new primitive type. Salvatore Sanfilipponews [Is Data Warehousing Dead?](https://medium.com/@tamiro/is-data-warehousing-dead-727757b0c424) — Things aren’t what they used to be if you identify as a data warehouse engineer. We make the same decisions today, but the technology and scale has changed. Tamir Rozenbergopinion [Migrating MySQL to Postgres with Minimal Downtime](http://www.pgdba.co.uk/2018/01/migrating-mysql-to-postgresql-with.html) — Looking to migrate from MySQL to Postgres and minimize your downtime? pg_chameleon is a tool that can help by replicating from MySQL to Postgres. Federico Campolitutorial [Self-Service Analytics Seen Overtaking Data Scientists](https://www.datanami.com/2018/01/25/self-service-analytics-seen-overtaking-data-scientists/) Datanaminews [SQL-on-Hadoop Database Trafodion Bridges Transactions and Analysis](https://thenewstack.io/sql-hadoop-database-trafodion-bridges-transactions-analysis-divide/) Susan Hallnews [Timescale Raises $16M From Benchmark, NEA, Two Sigma Ventures](https://blog.timescale.com/raised-16m-from-benchmark-nea-to-understand-machines-time-series-data-iot-9eff8213c15c) Ajay Kulkarninews [Apache HBase 2.0.0-Beta-1 Is Now Available](https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a6af33e5bd79c80535bd94e1161bdf4a3424abe2cba222c99396383d@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E) The HBase Dev Teamnews [Troubleshooting Crashing Issues for MySQL / MariaDB](https://learn.percona.com/cp-troubleshooting-crashing-issues-registration) Perconasponsored [A Serverless Way to Schedule Amazon DynamoDB On-Demand Backups](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/a-serverless-solution-to-schedule-your-amazon-dynamodb-on-demand-backup/) Masudur Rahaman Sayemtutorial [Principles and Applications of the Index Types Supported by PostgreSQL](https://medium.com/@Alibaba_Cloud/principles-and-applications-of-the-index-types-supported-by-postgresql-481f59bab67d) Alibaba Cloudtutorial [Breaking Down What 'ACID' Means](https://medium.com/@singhal.amogh1995/breaking-down-acid-and-transactions-in-databases-cd206db7dd8b) — Heard the term ACID and not understood? A simple explainer here. Amogh Singhaltutorial [How to Implement Dynamic Data Masking in Azure SQL Database and SQL Server](https://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/how-to-implement-dynamic-data-masking-in-azure-sql-database-and-sql-server.html) Anoop Kumartutorial [PostgreSQL 10 Associate Certification Now Available. Test Your Skills](http://inter.viewcentral.com/reg/enterprisedb/PostgreSQL10Certification) EnterpriseDB Training & Certificationsponsored [Databases at the Beginning with Bill Karwin](https://theaccidentalengineer.com/databases-at-the-begninning-bill-karwin-square/) The Accidental Engineer [Meltdown's Performance Impact on MongoDB at AWS, Azure and DigitalOcean](https://scalegrid.io/blog/meltdown-performance-impact-on-mongodb-aws-azure-digitalocean/) Dharshan Rangegowdaopinion    

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