---
title: "Oracle 18c XE, PipelineDB 1.0 and Uber's big data platform"
publication: "DB Weekly"
issue: 227
published_at: "2018-10-25"
canonical_url: "https://dbweekly.com/issues/227"
---

This week's database news       

#227 — October 25, 2018 

[Read on the Web](https://dbweekly.com/issues/227)   

Database Weekly 

[![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/ovumqdrgfhp1lbs0guwg.jpg)](https://eng.uber.com/uber-big-data-platform/)  

[Uber’s Big Data Platform: 100+ Petabytes with Minute Latency](https://eng.uber.com/uber-big-data-platform/) — It’s amazing to think that Uber has over 100 petabytes of data to analyze, but all those journeys and drivers soon add up. Here’s a look at how Uber uses Hadoop and Spark to manage and analyze this immense collection of data. 

Reza Shiftehfar (Uber)   

[A Web-Based Random Dummy Data Generation Tool](https://www.onlinedatagenerator.com/) — Specify some fields, number of rows, and output format, and this tool will put together some dummy data for you. 

WHITEBOARD.tech   [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/44988384.png)](https://studio3t.com/knowledge-base/articles/create-mongodb-joins-with-sql/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=cooper&utm_campaign=Oct18) 

[Love SQL but Want to Try MongoDB? Get the Best of Both, with Studio 3T](https://studio3t.com/knowledge-base/articles/create-mongodb-joins-with-sql/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=cooper&utm_campaign=Oct18) — Get started fast with a variety of SQL Join queries in MongoDB. 

Studio 3T sponsor   

[PostgreSQL 11: A First Take on the New Release](https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/10/18/postgresql-11-our-first-take-on-the-new-release/) — Thoughts on some of the _“killer features”_ of the latest release that we featured last week. [This week’s Postgres Weekly](https://postgresweekly.com/issues/279) goes into more detail on the release too. 

Jobin Augustine, Ibrar Ahmed, Avinash Vallarapu and Fernando Laudares Camargos   

[Oracle Database 18c XE Now Available](https://blogs.oracle.com/oracle-database/oracle-database-18c-xe-now-available) — Oracle Database 18c XE is a free, community supported edition of Oracle’s popular enterprise-dwelling database. Limits have been increased to supporting 2 CPUs, 12GB of data, and 2GB of RAM. 

William Hardie (Oracle)   

[PipelineDB 1.0.0: High-Performance Time-Series Aggregation For PostgreSQL](https://www.pipelinedb.com/blog/pipelinedb-1-0-0-high-performance-time-series-aggregation-for-postgresql) — PipelineDB 1.0 is a PostgreSQL extension for high-performance time-series aggregation via continuous SQL queries. 

Derek Nelson   

[Amazon RDS Now Supports MySQL 8.0](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon-rds-now-supports-mysql-8/) — Amazon’s managed database service now supports the latest major edition of MySQL. 

Amazon Web Services   

[The Dark Side of MongoDB’s New License](https://www.scylladb.com/2018/10/22/the-dark-side-of-mongodbs-new-license/) — MongoDB recently revised its open source license, creating the new Server Side Public License (SSPL). How does it compare to APGL? How may it affect users? 

Dor Laor (ScyllaDB)   

[The Basics of Data Modeling with Cassandra](https://blog.knoldus.com/cassandra-data-modeling/) 

Charmy Garg   

[A Fast, Serverless, Big Data Pipeline Powered by a Single Azure Function](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/a-fast-serverless-big-data-pipeline-powered-by-a-single-azure-function/) — A single, serverless Azure function is all it took to fully implement an end-to-end, real-time, mission critical data pipeline, as seen here. 

Kate Baroni   

[IBM Offers AI-Assisted SQL Tuning](https://www.databasejournal.com/features/db2/ibm-offers-ai-assisted-sql-tuning.html) — Aimed at enterprise users on z/OS systems, IBM’s _Db2 AI for z/OS_ (Db2ZAI) gathers SQL performance information over time and uses machine learning to create more efficient database models. 

Lockwood Lyon (Database Journal)   

[Moving Tablespaces by Bruce Momjian](https://bit.ly/2P0VL8N) — A look at just how simple moving tablespaces is since Postgres 9.2. 

EnterpriseDB sponsor   

[Benchmarking Google BigQuery at Scale](https://techblog.king.com/benchmarking-google-bigquery-at-scale/) 

Robert Barton (King)   

[dtle: A Distributed Data Transfer Tool for MySQL](https://github.com/actiontech/dtle) — Built in Golang. 

ActionTech         

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