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title: "AWS packages up its own distribution of Elasticsearch"
publication: "DB Weekly"
issue: 245
published_at: "2019-03-15"
canonical_url: "https://dbweekly.com/issues/245"
---

This week's database news       

#245 — March 15, 2019 

[Read on the Web](https://dbweekly.com/issues/245)   

Database Weekly 

[![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/xgvlaxxlszomwh6k0ioa.jpg)](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-open-distro-for-elasticsearch/)   

[AWS Unveils a New, 'Open' Distribution of Elasticsearch](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-open-distro-for-elasticsearch/) — [Elasticsearch](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch) is a popular document-oriented search and analytics engine/database and AWS is offering [a new, purely open source distribution of it](https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch/) after concerns regarding recent additions of more proprietary features to the main project. _(Look at the [homepage's](https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch/) URL.. makes you wonder what they're planning next!)_ 

Jeff Barr   [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/5ed268e4.jpg)](https://www.quest.com/FY2020_Q1_AMER_DBPerf_CooperPress_March_eNewsletter_ADV) 

[Eliminate Risk with Ultimate Cross-Platform Insight](https://www.quest.com/FY2020_Q1_AMER_DBPerf_CooperPress_March_eNewsletter_ADV) — Proactively diagnose and resolve database issues – through one interface with Foglight for Cross-Platform Databases. 

Quest Software sponsor   

[ArangoDB Raises $10MB in Series A Funding](https://www.arangodb.com/2019/03/arangodb-receives-series-a-funding-led-by-bow-capital/) — ArangoDB is an interesting, highly available multi-model NoSQL database that unites graph, document, and key/value approaches in a single core with the same query language. 

ArangoDB   

[How On-Demand Pricing Slashed an AWS DynamoDB Bill by 90%](https://blog.koan.co/how-on-demand-pricing-slashed-our-dynamodb-bill-by-90-27857c49f30b) — A look at how a company using DynamoDB for all their app’s database needs saved big using [the new on-demand pricing model.](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-dynamodb-on-demand-no-capacity-planning-and-pay-per-request-pricing/) 

Ashwin Bhat   

[Let's Build a Simple Database in C](https://cstack.github.io/db_tutorial/) — A thirteen-part (so far) series on building a simple SQLite clone from scratch. 

Connor Stack   

[Neo4j Joins GraphQL Foundation as a Founding Member](https://neo4j.com/blog/neo4j-joins-graphql-foundation-founding-member/) — GraphQL makes the observation that application data is a graph, and allows the client to query it as a graph, which makes it a natural fit for Neo4j, one of the leading graph databases. 

Neo4j   

[What MemSQL Can Do for Time-Series Applications](https://thenewstack.io/what-memsql-can-do-for-time-series-applications/) — A look at the practicalities of how MemSQL, a distributed, in-memory, SQL database management system aimed at performance, can be used as a powerful time-series database. 

Eric Hanson (MemSQL)   

[Migration from Oracle Database to MariaDB: A Deep Dive](https://severalnines.com/blog/migration-oracle-database-mariadb-deep-dive) 

Severalnines  

📖 Stories and Opinions  

[How Hovis Improved Demand Forecasting with Google BigQuery](https://tech.newstatesman.com/it-leaders/hovis-google-bigquery) — A major British bread brand has been coupling together all the information about their inventory, third party data, public holidays, and more to do machine learning-based demand forecasting backed by BigQuery. 

New Statesman   

▶[Security Incident Response with Andrew Mulholland](https://www.strongdm.com/andrew-mulholland/) — The head of core infrastructure at BuzzFeed discusses how real-life production log storage servers crash, and how to handle it. 

Token Security Podcast sponsor   

[How Grab Simplified Its Data Ingestion and Transformation Process](https://engineering.grab.com/data-ingestion-transformation-product-insights) — Replacing Spark streaming with their own Go-powered pipeline yielded big improvements for the Asian transportation platform. 

Grab Tech   

[Benchmarking Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL](https://severalnines.com/blog/benchmarking-managed-postgresql-cloud-solutions-part-one-amazon-aurora) — The first in a series of articles benchmarking managed PostgreSQL services. 

Severalnines   

[Getting Ready for Real-Time 'Decisioning'](https://www.datanami.com/2019/03/12/getting-ready-for-real-time-decisioning/) — A great example is e-commerce companies doing real-time fraud prevention for online transactions. 

John Dillon (Aerospike)  

🛠 Tools and Systems  

[Tile38: A Geospatial Database, Spatial Index, and Realtime Geofence](https://github.com/tidwall/tile38) — Built in Go, Tile38 is an in-memory geolocation data store that supports a variety of object types including lat/lon points, bounding boxes, XYZ tiles, Geohashes, and GeoJSON. 

Josh Baker   

[A Look at Six Top GUI Tools for PostgreSQL](https://severalnines.com/blog/top-gui-tools-postgresql) — Using a GUI is rarely a _must_, but GUI-based tools can be useful in some cases. Here’s a brief review of five options including pgAdmin, Navicat and ClusterControl. 

Sebastian Insausti (Severalnines)   

[KeyDB: A Multithreaded Fork of Redis](https://github.com/JohnSully/KeyDB) — John Sully disagrees with Salvatore Sanfilippo’s [thoughts on multithreading](http://antirez.com/news/126), so this fork now exists. YMMV. 

John Sully         

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