--- title: "The latest from AWS re:Invent 2018" publication: "DB Weekly" issue: 231 published_at: "2018-11-30" canonical_url: "https://dbweekly.com/issues/231" --- This week's database news #231 — November 30, 2018 [Read on the Web](https://dbweekly.com/issues/231) Database Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/io0efuv9eikko4zdysm4.jpg)](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-dynamodb-on-demand-no-capacity-planning-and-pay-per-request-pricing/) [Amazon DynamoDB On-Demand: No Capacity Planning and Pay-Per-Request Pricing](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-dynamodb-on-demand-no-capacity-planning-and-pay-per-request-pricing/) — Kicking off a long line of AWS related database news this week, it’s exciting to see Amazon’s popular DynamoDB key-value store adopting an on-demand pricing option that avoids the need to provision capacity ahead of time. Amazon Web Services [Amazon Timestream: AWS's Take on the Time Series Database](https://aws.amazon.com/timestream/) — Amazon Timestream is a new fully managed time series database service for IoT and operational apps that promises to scale up to ‘trillions of events per day’. It’s in preview only for now but [pricing](https://aws.amazon.com/timestream/pricing/) is already available. Amazon Web Services, Inc. [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/41b3cf74.png)](https://www.enterprisedb.com/edb-postgres-cds) [Announcing The EDB Postgres Cloud Database Service Beta](https://www.enterprisedb.com/edb-postgres-cds) — A complete managed service, delivering enterprise-ready EDB Postgres databases on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. EnterpriseDB sponsor [Neo4j 3.5 Released: The Popular Graph Database](https://neo4j.com/blog/neo4j-graph-database-3-5-ga-release/) — The latest relase now includes full-text search and indexing, plus an official driver for the Go language. Ivan Zoratti (Neo4j) [AWS To Build You a Data Lake in 'A Few Clicks'](https://www.datanami.com/2018/11/29/aws-to-build-you-a-data-lake-in-a-few-clicks/) — As part of this week’s re:Invent AWS announced [Lake Formation](https://aws.amazon.com/lake-formation/), a service for more easily building S3-based data lakes by pulling in data from external sources then cleaning and securing it. Datanami [Amazon Quantum Ledger Database](https://aws.amazon.com/qldb/) — Another new service fresh out of AWS’s re:Invent event. QLDB, available only in preview form for now, is a managed ledger database that provides a transparent, immutable, and cryptographically verifiable transaction log. Amazon Web Services, Inc. [How Adobe Overhauled Legacy Systems with Neo4j](https://neo4j.com/graphconnect-2018/session/overhauling-legacy-systems-adobe) — Notes and a talk video on how Adobe planned and executed a transformation from a Cassandra-based architecture to a leaner Neo4j-powered system. David Fox (Adobe) [How PostgreSQL is More Than a Relational Database, Thanks to Extensions](https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2018/11/27/postgres-more-than-a-relational-database/) — A brief tour of extensions and how they can make Postgres into much more than a straightforward relational database. Craig Kerstiens [TigerGraph Launches Cloud Database on AWS](https://www.datanami.com/2018/11/27/tigergraph-launches-cloud-database-on-aws/) — TigerGraph operates in the AI-based graph analytics space. Datanami [Amazon Aurora Global Database: Span Multiple Regions with a Single Aurora Database](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/announcing-amazon-aurora-global-database/) — _Global Database_ is a new feature for the MySQL variant of Aurora that lets a single database span multiple AWS regions with fast replication handled behind the scenes. Amazon Web Services [Global 'DataSphere' to Hit 175 Zettabytes by 2025, IDC Says](https://www.datanami.com/2018/11/27/global-datasphere-to-hit-175-zettabytes-by-2025-idc-says/) — The ‘datasphere’ in this case is the total sum of the world’s data. Datanami [4 SQL Injection Techniques For Stealing Data](https://bertwagner.com/2018/11/20/4-sql-injection-techniques-for-stealing-data/) — Worth being familiar with so you can avoid these problems yourself. SQL with Bert [Implicit vs. Explicit SQL Joins](https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/postgressql-implicit-vs-explicit-joins/) — A post that aims to shed some light on the difference between implicit (where you select multiple tables and use a condition to join them) and explicit joins (using SQL’s `JOIN` clause). 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