---
title: "A database that structures and indexes itself?"
publication: "DB Weekly"
issue: 243
published_at: "2019-03-01"
canonical_url: "https://dbweekly.com/issues/243"
---

This week's database news       

#243 — March 1, 2019 

[Read on the Web](https://dbweekly.com/issues/243)   

Database Weekly 

[![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/aetfaaoijwyqgkbxekc8.jpg)](https://www.scylladb.com/2019/02/20/valustor-a-memcached-alternative-built-on-scylla/)  

[ValuStor: A `memcached` Alternative Built on Scylla](https://www.scylladb.com/2019/02/20/valustor-a-memcached-alternative-built-on-scylla/) — [Scylla](https://www.scylladb.com/open-source/) itself is a highly scalable, distributed low-latency database (based on Apache Cassandra’s design) and [ValuStor](https://github.com/Sensaphone/ValuStor) is an open source `memcached` alternative built on top of it that brings several interesting features to the party. 

Peter Corless   

[Redis Turns 10: How It Started with a Single Post on Hacker News](https://redislabs.com/blog/redis-turns-10/) — Ten years ago, Redis’s creator Salvatore Sanfilippo first posted on Hacker News about the [Redis](https://redis.io/) data structure store and has firmly stuck to his mission ever since. It’s now a critical piece of infrastructure for many. 

Dave Nielsen (RedisLabs)   [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/bedf5f8a.jpg)](https://www.influxdata.com/blog/introducing-the-next-generation-influxdb-2-0-platform/) 

[Introducing the Next-Generation InfluxDB 2.0 Platform](https://www.influxdata.com/blog/introducing-the-next-generation-influxdb-2-0-platform/) — We’ve taken our original mantra of Fastest Time to Awesome to a whole new level, and we can’t wait to share it with you. 

InfluxData sponsor   

[SageDB: A Learned Database System?](https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/01/16/sagedb-a-learned-database-system/) — Another one of those _“Could this be the future of databases?”_ ideas here, with a database that, given data, aims to automatically build the best structures, algorithms and indexes to match the workload and environment. 

the morning paper   

[MariaDB Readies New Enterprise Server](https://www.zdnet.com/article/mariadb-readies-new-enterprise-server/) — While staying loyal to its open-source roots, the new MariaDB Enterprise Server is designed for enterprise production workloads. 

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNet)   

[Data Growth Rate in U.S. Predicted to Slow](https://www.datanami.com/2019/02/25/data-growth-rate-in-u-s-predicted-to-slow/) — We’re usually talking about how the growth of data is only continuing to _accelerate_ but no, growth is predicted to slow, though mostly due to a decrease in entertainment-oriented content. 

Datanami   

[Thinking in MapReduce, But with SQL](https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2019/02/21/thinking-in-mapreduce-but-with-sql/) 

Craig Kerstiens   

[How to Store, Query, and Create JSON Documents in Oracle Database](https://blogs.oracle.com/sql/how-to-store-query-and-create-json-documents-in-oracle-database) — It’s not just CouchDB, MongoDB and PostgreSQL riding the JSON train, Oracle’s firmly on it too, and this is a pretty comprehensive overview of Oracle’s JSON functionality which seems well designed to me. 

Chris Saxon (Oracle)   

[Migrating MySQL from AWS to On-Prem](https://severalnines.com/blog/how-migrate-mysql-amazon-ec2-your-prem-data-center-without-downtime?utm_campaign=Migrate_CS_OS_Campaign_FEB18&utm_content=dbweekly&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=Link_Click) — Not everyone is moving _to_ the cloud and this blog shows you how to shift on site with zero downtime. 

Severalnines sponsor   

[Playing with Parallel Queries in PostgreSQL](https://www.percona.com/blog/2019/02/21/parallel-queries-in-postgresql/) 

Nickolay Ihalainen   

[Running a Bakery on Emacs and Postgres](https://bofh.org.uk/2019/02/25/baking-with-emacs/) — Here’s what happens when a programmer turns their skills to organizing a bakery. This could apply to almost any database system, of course. 

Piers Cawley   

[The MySQL 100,000 Connections Challenge](https://www.percona.com/blog/2019/02/25/mysql-challenge-100k-connections/) — An exploration of how to establish 100,000 productive connections to a MySQL database involving three components.. a thread pool, tuning, and using multiple IP addresses. 

Vadim Tkachenko   

[![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/n0q2ljyt3yxrxdvq4cik.jpg)](https://dbeaver.io/)  

[DBeaver: A Universal Database Tool](https://dbeaver.io/) — Written in Java, this is an open-source, cross-platform database tool for developers, admins and analysts alike. Supports all popular databases. 

DBeaver Team   

['Swim' Streaming Data App Builder Goes Open Source](https://www.datanami.com/2019/02/22/streaming-data-app-builder-goes-open-source/) — A runtime for building stateful apps along with a framework, SDKs and a client for building streaming data visualizations and embedding them into existing apps. 

Datanami         

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