Nvidia Sees Green in Data Science Workloads — A significant trend we’re seeing in the database and data science spaces right now is the use of GPUs for large scale data processing, so it should be no surprise that Nvidia are now doubling down on this sector. Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang, devoted a third of his recent keynote solely to data science and where he sees Nvidia leading the way.

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A Decade Later, Apache Spark Still Going Strong — While Spark’s rapid growth seems to be more of a recent phenomenon, the project, which began quietly at UC Berkeley and “kicked MapReduce out of the Hadoop nest”, is actually 10 years old.

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Scaling Relational Databases with Apache Spark SQL and DataFrames — Spark is now well established as a high performance cluster-computing framework based around the MapReduce approach of processing data. But it’s both possible to use SQL with it and to represent data stored within Spark in a relational style using DataFrames. This article explains how, then follows up with a hands-on tutorial.

Dipanjan (DJ) Sarkar

Neo4j Announces Neo4j Labs for Building Next-Gen Graph Database Tooling — The company behind the popular Neo4j graph database are formalizing the idea of having a variety of experimental projects that at least one Neo4j employee will be working on. GRANDstack, a toolkit for building full stack GraphQL databases on top of Neo4j, is one such example.

Michael Hunger

Oracle vs. SQL Server Architecture — This is a pretty neat high level comparison between the different approaches taken by Oracle Database and SQL Server for either DBAs who need to work with both or industry observers like me :-)

Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman

Stitching Sheets: Using MongoDB Stitch To Create An API For Data In Google Sheets

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Data Masking in the World of GDPR

Lockwood Lyon

MySQL Connection Handling and Scaling — A modern description of how MySQL works with connections, threads, and scaling generally.

Geir Høydalsvik

4 Apache Cassandra Pitfalls You Must Avoid — Keep it secure, keep it monitored, and don’t treat it like a standard relational database.

Justin Cameron

Performing a PostgreSQL Upgrade using pg_dumpall — A look at one of several approaches for when upgrading Postgres. pg_dumpall is well suited for clusters and is relatively straightforward, although it’s not ideal for particularly large databases.

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The Creator of Elasticsearch on 'Open' Distros, Open Source, and Building a Company — Elasticsearch’s creator has responded to Amazon’s move to create an ‘Open Distro’ for Elasticsearch, a story we featured last week. Others, however, say that Amazon are doing their bit.

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MongoDB Named a Leader in Forrester's Latest NoSQL Report — MongoDB has been recognized as a NoSQL market leader by research firm Forrester in its Forrester Wave™: Big Data NoSQL, Q1 2019 Report with the strongest “current offering” though Microsoft has the edge on “stronger strategy”.

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