--- title: "NVIDIA unveils a direct path between storage and GPUs for data science workloads" publication: "DB Weekly" issue: 266 published_at: "2019-08-09" canonical_url: "https://dbweekly.com/issues/266" --- This week's database news #266 — August 9, 2019 [Read on the Web](https://dbweekly.com/issues/266) Database Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/ehctjbeuoj5jbfijmgbj.jpg)](https://towardsdatascience.com/life-after-hadoop-getting-data-science-to-work-for-your-business-c9ab6605733f) [Life After Hadoop: How NVIDIA Wants to Accelerate Data Science](https://towardsdatascience.com/life-after-hadoop-getting-data-science-to-work-for-your-business-c9ab6605733f) — We’ve featured NVIDIA’s data science ambitions [before](https://dbweekly.com/issues/246) and now here’s an article from two NVIDIA engineers outlining how NVIDIA sees GPU-based tooling taking things to the next level, including [GPUDirect Storage](https://devblogs.nvidia.com/gpudirect-storage/), a new way to directly connect storage and GPUs. Josh Patterson [Building Petabyte-Scale Analytics with BigQuery and HyperLogLog](https://t.co/6XsmhZvp18) — [Permutive](https://permutive.com/) provides a data and analytics platform for publishers and BigQuery and HyperLogLog play a big role in keeping things fast and accurate. Paulius Imbrasas [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/7b6bbdd1.png)](https://pganalyze.com/ebooks/optimizing-postgres-query-performance?utm_source=DBWeeklyPrimary) [eBook: Best Practices for Optimizing Postgres Query Performance](https://pganalyze.com/ebooks/optimizing-postgres-query-performance?utm_source=DBWeeklyPrimary) — Learn how to get a 3x performance improvement on your Postgres database and 500x reduced data loaded from disk in this free pganalyze eBook. pganalyze sponsor [Comparing Postgres's JSONB with Couchbase](https://blog.couchbase.com/postgres-jsonb-and-nosql/) — Can Postgres really take the place of a ‘NoSQL’ document-oriented database? It’s interesting to see something like this from a document-oriented database vendor, especially as it’s reasonably fair to Postgres (while still focusing on Couchbase’s strengths, naturally). Denis Rosa (Couchbase) [Build Highly Available MySQL Apps using Amazon Aurora Multi-Master](https://aws.amazon.com/cn/blogs/database/building-highly-available-mysql-applications-using-amazon-aurora-mmsr/) — The newly available [Amazon Aurora Multi-Master](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/08/amazon-aurora-multimaster-now-generally-available/) brings further high availability features to Aurora, Amazon’s MySQL compatible database service. Amazon Web Services **Quick bytes:** - [PostgreSQL 11.5, 10.10, 9.6.15](https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1960/) and other minor releases have been released to fix two security issues and 'over 40 bugs.' - The first ever _Distributed SQL Summit_ is [taking place](https://distributedsql.org/) in San Jose on September 20. - From October 1, 2019, Microsoft's licensing terms will [impact users using on-prem services](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/news/updated-licensing-rights-for-dedicated-cloud) on 'dedicated hosted cloud services' (e.g. AWS). - [HPE has acquired MapR](https://www.datanami.com/2019/08/05/hpe-acquires-mapr/), the Hadoop company that has been facing an uncertain future recently. - BigQuery now has support for [persistent user defined functions.](https://medium.com/@hoffa/new-in-bigquery-persistent-udfs-c9ea4100fd83) - In anticipation of PostgreSQL 12 adding support for SQL/JSON, [Markus Winand has been testing and comparing the SQL/JSON functionality](https://twitter.com/MarkusWinand/status/1159467492915515392) of other databases including SQLite, MariaDB, MySQL, and SQL Server. [Chart here.](https://modern-sql.com/static/sm-blog-whats-new-in-sql2016.json-path.en.xRSTIPem.svg) - BlazingSQL, a RAPIDS-based SQL engine, [is now open source.](https://blog.blazingdb.com/blazingsql-is-now-open-source-b859d342ec20) Another interesting part of the NVIDIA data science story. 💻 Jobs [Lead Cloud Security Engineer](https://grnh.se/59299dec1) — Make an impact as our first Security Engineer, focusing on driving innovation & best practices around our cloud security efforts. Cockroach Labs [DB Developers Are in Demand on Vettery](https://www.vettery.com/tech?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=cooper-dbweekly&utm_term=tech&utm_content=grouped&utm_campaign=ad-88878) — Ready for a bold career move? Make a free profile, name your salary, and connect with hiring managers from top employers today. Vettery 📒 Everything else [How I Destroyed Multiple Production Databases](https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/destroying-multiple-production-databases) — A sysadmin ‘horror story’ from the 90s taught this engineer some lessons for the future. Jan Gerrit Kootstra [How Stack Overflow Does App Caching with Redis](https://nickcraver.com/blog/2019/08/06/stack-overflow-how-we-do-app-caching/) — An interesting, technical writeup of how popular developer Q&A site Stack Overflow uses Redis to keep things running smoothly. Nick Craver (Stack Overflow) [The DevOps Perspective on Database Coexistence](https://studio3t.com/mongodb-sql-coexistence-whitepaper/?utm_source=cooper&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=Aug9) — Whether you're in DevOps, development, or database administration, download the full SQL Migration whitepaper for free, from Studio 3T. Studio 3T sponsor [MariaDB vs MySQL, A Database Technologies Rundown](https://kinsta.com/blog/mariadb-vs-mysql/) — If you’ve just thought of MariaDB as a sort of MySQL spinoff, there’s a bit more to it than that.. Tonino Jankov [You Don't Need an ER Diagram to Understand Your Database](https://dataedo.com/blog/you-dont-need-an-er-diagram-to-understand-your-database) — _“ERDs are great for visualizing databases but are not suitable as the documentation in itself”_ Piotr Kononow [MontyDB: A Tiny Clone of MongoDB in Python](https://github.com/davidlatwe/montydb) — An interesting bit of fun here for Python developers. It’s a TinyDB-inspired, pure Python MongoDB-a-like! David Lai [LF: A Fully Decentralized, Fully Replicated Key/Value Store](https://github.com/zerotier/lf) — It’s billed as ‘beta’ software, but this is an interesting experiment in creating a fast data store for ‘small but critical’ pieces of information (think etcd but suitable for open, decentralized systems). 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