---
title: "Amazon Aurora Serverless MySQL Generally Available"
publication: "DB Weekly"
issue: 216
published_at: "2018-08-10"
canonical_url: "https://dbweekly.com/issues/216"
---

This week's database news       

#216 — August 10, 2018 

[Read on the Web](https://dbweekly.com/issues/216)   

Database Weekly  

[Amazon Aurora Serverless MySQL Generally Available](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aurora-serverless-ga/) — AWS is now bringing the scaling and billing flexibility of the serverless approach to MySQL in the shape of a serverless variety of its MySQL-compatible Aurora service. 

Randall Hunt (Amazon)   

[Google Expands Its Cloud Firestore Beta to More Users](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/expanding-the-cloud-firestore-beta-to-more-users) — Google is expanding the availability of _Cloud Firestore_, its serverless NoSQL document database, adding new locations, features, and admin tools to the GCP console. 

Dan McGrath (Google)   [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/0e2a68ac.jpg)](https://www.influxdata.com/blog/monitoring-your-postgresql-database-with-telegraf-and-influxdb/) 

[Monitoring Your PostgreSQL Database with Telegraf and InfluxDB](https://www.influxdata.com/blog/monitoring-your-postgresql-database-with-telegraf-and-influxdb/) — Learn how to use [Telegraf](https://www.influxdata.com/time-series-platform/telegraf/) (the agent for collecting and reporting metrics & events) and [InfluxDB](https://www.influxdata.com/time-series-platform/influxdb/) (the fastest growing open source TSDB) to monitor your PostgreSQL database. 

InfluxData sponsor   

[Herb: Uber's Multi-DC Replication Engine for Its Schemaless Datastore](https://eng.uber.com/herb-datacenter-replication/#) — [Schemaless](https://eng.uber.com/schemaless-part-one/) is an interesting MySQL-based datastore Uber uses and here they share how they’ve made it resilient using their numerous datacenters and a technology called _Herb_. 

Himank Chaudhary   

[An Introduction to MongoDB Transactions in Python](https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/introduction-to-mongodb-transactions-in-python) — [MongoDB 4.0’s](https://www.mongodb.com/mongodb-4.0) headline new feature was multi-document transaction support. This article demonstrates how transactions work from Python within an example app that emulates a flight ticket ordering scenario. 

Joe Drumgoole (MongoDB)   

[Taking a Tour of PostgreSQL with Jonathan Katz](https://www.dataengineeringpodcast.com/postgresql-with-jonathan-katz-episode-42/) — The co-organizer of NYC PostgreSQL User Group discusses how Postgres started and how it has grown over the years. 

The Data Engineering Podcast   

[Microsoft Announces GA of Azure SQL Database 'Reserved Capacity'](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-general-availability-of-azure-sql-database-reserved-capacity/) — A new pricing model allows Azure SQL users to adapt to their needs more flexibly. 

Lindsey Allen (Microsoft)   

[Using Kubernetes to Deploy Postgres](https://severalnines.com/blog/using-kubernetes-deploy-postgresql) — How to run a PostgreSQL database on a Kubernetes cluster using Docker containerization. 

Severalnines   

[Webinar: Building Modern Apps with the MERN Stack and Google Cloud Platform](https://www.mongodb.com/webinar/building-modern-apps-with-the-mern-stack-and-gcp?jmp=cpress&utm_campaign=WW_CP_newsletter_sponsorship&utm_content=20180810&utm_medium=display&utm_source=dbweekly) — Learn about the two dominant JavaScript stacks: MEAN and MERN and how to implement these web stacks on GCP. 

MongoDB sponsor   

[SQL: Nested Window Functions and Time Series](https://llvllatrix.wordpress.com/2018/08/06/sql-nested-window-functions-and-time-series/) 

llvllatrix   

[Slashing a SQL Query's Runtime From 380 Hours to 12 with Two Unix Commands](https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20180805/) 

Diomidis Spinellis   

[Larry Ellison Doubts Amazon Will Get Off Oracle by 2020?](https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/07/larry-ellison-says-it-will-be-really-hard-for-amazon-not-to-use-orac.html) — “SAP couldn’t do it. Salesforce couldn’t do it. I don’t think they can do it,” said Oracle’s chairman. Almost sounds like a challenge :-) 

Jordan Novet (CNBC)   

[Introducing the Time Series Benchmark Suite (TSBS)](https://blog.timescale.com/time-series-database-benchmarks-timescaledb-influxdb-cassandra-mongodb-bc702b72927e) — A collection of Go(lang) programs that can both generate time-series datasets and then benchmark the performance of different databases for working with them. 

Rob Kiefer (Timescale)   

[Condenser: A Database Subsetting Tool for PostgreSQL](https://github.com/TonicAI/condenser) — _“Subsetting a database means to take a subset of its rows, across multiple tables, while still maintaining all of the constraints of the original database.”_ 

Tonic         

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