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title: "This week's database news, issue 29"
publication: "DB Weekly"
issue: 29
published_at: "2014-09-12"
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This week's database news, issue 29

This week's database news, supported by Rackspace[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://dbweekly.com/issues/29)

DB WeeklyIssue 29 — September 12, 2014

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[NHS Grows A NoSQL Backbone and Rips Out Its Oracle Spine](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/09/nhs_spin2_rips_out_oracle/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email)The RegisterBritain’s National Health Service has removed Oracle from a national patient database system (“Spine”) and replaced it with Basho’s Riak NoSQL system.


[DBAs vs Developers: A Sad Tale of Unnecessary Conflict](https://www.simple-talk.com/opinion/opinion-pieces/dbas-vs-developers-a-sad-tale-of-unnecessary-conflict/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email)Simple TalkDavid Poole thinks it is time to end the unnecessary conflict between developer and DBA, and explains how to deal professionally with the inevitable friction between development and operation activities in IT.


[Getting Starting Guide for Hadoop (Part 1)](http://www.rackspace.com/blog/new-to-hadoop-heres-a-handy-guide-to-get-you-started-part-1/?cm_mmc=managed-_-cloud-_-contentnam-_-dbweekly-hadoopguide1)RackspaceSponsoredThe Hadoop ecosystem is crammed full of software, much of which duplicates efforts, and much of which is named so similarly that it’s very confusing for newcomers. If you’re new to Hadoop, [this guide](http://www.rackspace.com/blog/new-to-hadoop-heres-a-handy-guide-to-get-you-started-part-1/?cm_mmc=managed-_-cloud-_-contentnam-_-dbweekly-hadoopguide1) is perfect to help you get familiar. Part 1 one covers the most common and core pieces of functionality.

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[Walgreens Reminds Us to Keep Our Database Healthy](http://devops.com/blogs/walgreens-reminds-us-keep-database-healthy/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email)DevOps.comChris Riley picks up some lessons from a recent database outage at Walgreens and explains how good devops procedures can avoid such situations.


[Oracle's Use of Bloom Filters for Join Efficiency](http://www.databasejournal.com/features/oracle/oracle-bloom-filters.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email)Database JournalIn Oracle releases 10.2.0.x and later join processing can be made more efficient by the use of Bloom filters, primarily to reduce traffic between parallel query slaves.


[OPM: An Open PostgreSQL Monitoring Software Suite](http://opm.io/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email)OPM Development GroupOPM is an open source solution to help you collect stats and display them to monitor your Postgres databases. Give it a look or try [the demo](http://opm.io/#demo).


[FoundationDB Adds SQL Layer to Its NoSQL Database](http://sdtimes.com/foundationdb-adds-sql-layer-nosql-database/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email)SD TimesFoundationDB has released a free, open-source SQL database engine that sits on top of its key-value store. This follows their purchase of Akiban, from where the technology comes.


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