Anna: A Key-Value Store For Any Scale — A look at an interesting key/value database out of Berkeley promising “phenomenal speed and buttery smooth scaling” and an “unprecedented range of consistency guarantees”.

It’s only an academic prototype for now, but a new version called Bedrock is underway and will, eventually, be open sourced. When it is, we’ll let you know.

Joseph M. Hellerstein

Translate SQL From One Dialect to Another — While SQL has been standardized numerous times, its implementation does tend to vary, so this tool provides an interesting way to see the differences on your own queries.

Lukas Eder

MongoDB Tutorial Series: How to Develop an Effective Indexing Strategy — Performance tuning a dark art? Not with us. Grab your free MongoDB tutorial on high-speed indexing strategies from Studio 3T. Learn the fast way how you can prevent slow and long-running queries.

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Distributed Transactions and Why You Should Care — An interesting explanation of what distributed transactions are about, why they matter, and some techniques that make them possible.

Pritam Roy

MarketStore, a Financial Time-Series Database, Now Open Source — A database server optimized for financial time-series data written in Go. GitHub repo.

Alpaca

Hops Hadoop: Hadoop, but with Distributed Metadata — A new distribution of Hadoop that adds a scale-out distributed metadata layer to remove the metadata bottleneck in HDFS. GitHub repo.

Logical Clocks AB

A Comparison of Window Functions and CTEs in MySQL vs MariaDB — How two new technologies compare in the MySQL family of databases.

Shree Nair

Choosing a MySQL High Availability Solution

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How the Ties.DB Database Uses Blockchain Technology

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Postgres 10: A Great New Version for a Great Database

Reuven M. Lerner

db.vim: A Modern Database Interface for Vim — A Vim plugin for interacting with MongoDB, MySQL, Postgres, Redis and SQLite. You can also build your own adapters.

Tim Pope