#269 — August 30, 2019 |
Database Weekly |
What Happened to Hadoop — Hadoop was often called ‘the next big thing’ in enterprise IT, until it wasn’t. A former write for Gigaom takes a high level look at the trends that pushed Hadoop out of the spotlight. Derrick Harris |
The Difference Between Isolation Levels and Consistency Levels — Isolation and consistency are important concepts in multi-user transactional databases that allow concurrent operations, but database vendors describe their level of support for these concepts in a variety of ways.. Daniel Abadi |
Because Your Data Is Your Business — PGX provides complete PostgreSQL support, from emergency services through daily operational support, to strategic planning. We’re here for your data ops. PostgreSQL Experts, Inc. sponsor |
How Timescale is Building a Distributed Time-Series Database on Top of PostgreSQL — TimescaleDB is a popular extension that brings time-series database features to Postgres. Here, Timescale share their design, plans, and benchmarks for a new (and still in closed beta) distributed version of TimescaleDB. Mike Freedman and Erik Nordström (Timescale) |
This Summer's New BigQuery Features — The latest updates for Google Cloud’s BigQuery data warehouse include a 10x streaming quota increase, automatic re-clustering, and importing TensorFlow models for making batch predictions upon BigQuery table data. Google Cloud Blog |
Amazon Forecast: Now Generally Available — This fully managed time-series forecasting service claims to deliver highly accurate forecasts with no machine learning experience. Amazon Web Services |
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SirixDB: Concepts of an Evolutionary, Temporal Database System — A detailed description of the architectural concepts of SirixDB, a log-structured temporal NoSQL document store. Johannes Lichtenberger |
▶ Discussing Time Series Databases with Rob Skillington — A time series database is optimized for the storage of high volumes of sequential data across time. Uber’s Rob Skillington talks about their use cases and about M3DB, a distributed time series database he helped create. Software Engineering Daily podcast |
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Enterprise Search in 2020 and Beyond: 5 Trends to Watch — Apparently enterprise search has remained ‘stuck in the 90s’ but 2020 will be the ‘year of enterprise search’ as AI and natural language approaches take hold. Datanami |
Row Level Security, Views and a Lot of Magic in PostgreSQL — Row Level Security (RLS) is a key PostgreSQL feature that lets you define granular policies on which rows specific users can view or manipulate. Here’s a look at how they work and a problem Cybertec discovered with the feature. Hans-Jürgen Schönig |
Dqlite: High-Availability SQLite with Raft Consensus — From the company behind Ubuntu is an ‘enterprise grade’ version of SQLite aimed at edge and IoT applications. Canonical Ltd. |
SQLiteWrapper: An Extensible and Lightweight C++17 Wrapper for SQLite Trail of Bits |