---
title: "FoundationDB goes Open Source, MySQL 8 Arrives"
publication: "DB Weekly"
issue: 200
published_at: "2018-04-20"
canonical_url: "https://dbweekly.com/issues/200"
---

This week's database news       

#200 — April 20, 2018 

[Read on the Web](https://dbweekly.com/issues/200)   

Database Weekly  

[Apple Open Sources FoundationDB](https://www.foundationdb.org/blog/foundationdb-is-open-source/) — FoundationDB is a mature, distributed key-value datastore with fully global, cross-row ACID transactions. People on HN are [very excited](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16877395) about this development with one commenter saying FoundationDB is _“the greatest piece of software I’ve ever worked on or used.”_ [GitHub repo.](https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/) 

Apple, Inc.   

[MySQL 8.0 Released: What's New?](https://mysqlserverteam.com/whats-new-in-mysql-8-0-generally-available/) — A pretty huge release for the popular SQL database which gains a _lot_ of new features from window functions and common table expressions (CTEs) to remote management, improved JSON support, and improved performance. Note that the [MariaDB](https://mariadb.org/) fork has had most of the new features for a while now. 

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Studio 3T sponsor   

[Postgres as the Substructure for IoT and the Next Wave of Computing](https://blog.timescale.com/postgres-accidental-iot-platform-timescaledb-postgresql-time-series-data-7983d28da5af) — How PostgreSQL accidentally became the ideal platform for IoT apps & services. 

Ajay Kulkarni   

[An Overview of MySQL 8.0's Document Store](https://mysqlserverteam.com/mysql-8-0-announcing-ga-of-the-mysql-document-store/) — MySQL 8.0 is out and includes a new ‘document store’ which essentially brings NoSQL/document-oriented features to MySQL. 

Mike Frank   

[Presto Use Surges, Qubole Finds](https://www.datanami.com/2018/04/18/presto-use-surges-qubole-finds/) — [Presto](https://prestodb.io/) is a distributed in-memory SQL query engine originally developed by Facebook and released in 2013 to be a faster and more flexible alternative to Apache Hive. 

Datanami   

[Developments in High-Volume Processing with PostgreSQL](https://blog.anayrat.info/en/2018/04/16/postgresqls-developments-for-high-volumes-processing/) — A run down of the major performance improvements in recent Postgres releases and what each means. 

Adrien Nayrat   

[Google Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL Now Generally Available](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/04/Cloud-SQL-for-PostgreSQL-now-generally-available-and-ready-for-your-production-workloads.html) — Backed by Google’s 24x7 SRE team, high availability with automatic failover, and SLA. 

Google Cloud Platform    

[CockroachDB Claims to Be 10x More Scalable Than Amazon Aurora for OLTP Workloads](https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/performance-part-two/) — Tested at 10x more TPC-C throughput, specifically. 

Arjun Narayan   

[Getting Started with Python and InfluxDB](https://www.influxdata.com/blog/getting-started-python-influxdb/) 

InfluxData sponsor   

[How to Make Your MySQL or MariaDB Database Highly Available on AWS and Google Cloud](https://severalnines.com/blog/how-make-mysql-mariadb-database-highly-available-aws-google-cloud) 

Krzysztof Ksiazek   

[Orchestrating Stateful Apps with Kubernetes StatefulSets and YugaByte DB](https://blog.yugabyte.com/orchestrating-stateful-apps-with-kubernetes-statefulsets-ce3a4a9dfd7e) 

Sid Choudhury   

[The Big Data Analytics of F1 Racing](https://www.datanami.com/2018/04/19/go-fast-and-win-the-big-data-analytics-of-f1-racing/) — Data analytics is key in Formula 1 motor-racing with the huge amounts of telemetry received from the cars. 

Datanami   

[Give Meaning to 100 Billion Events a Day - The Analytics Pipeline at Teads](http://highscalability.com/blog/2018/4/9/give-meaning-to-100-billion-events-a-day-the-analytics-pipel.html) — How one team orchestrates Kafka, Dataflow and BigQuery together to ingest and transform a large stream of events. 

Alban Perillat-Merceroz   

[Linux Cloud Hosting Starting at 1GB of RAM for $5/mo](https://welcome.linode.com/db-weekly/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=email&utm_term=db&utm_campaign=db-weekly-brief) 

Linode Cloud Hosting sponsor   

[AskXML: Run SQL Statements on XML Documents (from Python)](https://github.com/kamac/AskXML) 

Maciej Kozik         

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