---
title: "Things that more developers should know about databases"
publication: "DB Weekly"
issue: 301
published_at: "2020-04-24"
canonical_url: "https://dbweekly.com/issues/301"
---

Plus more database news, views, and links.       

#301 — April 24, 2020 

[Read on the Web](https://dbweekly.com/issues/301)   

Database Weekly 

[![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/v1587678764/dt97vyp00tujyf6pusyq.jpg)](https://medium.com/@rakyll/things-i-wished-more-developers-knew-about-databases-2d0178464f78)  

['Things I Wished More Developers Knew About Databases'](https://medium.com/@rakyll/things-i-wished-more-developers-knew-about-databases-2d0178464f78) — A Google engineer (whose name may be familiar to those Go developers amongst you) shares 17 insights about databases she’s picked up over the years. I strongly recommend this piece and I identify with lots of the points myself.. 

Jaana B. Dogan   

[Lambda Store: A New 'Serverless Redis' Service](https://medium.com/lambda-store/serverless-redis-is-here-34c2fa335f24) — This seems a neat idea. Claiming to not be just another Redis cloud service, Lambda Store applies a serverless-style pricing model which opens up a variety of neat use cases for the popular data structure server (serverless caching, for starters). The underlying system appears to be a custom clone of Redis rather than the real deal, however. 

Sven Anderson   [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/7c052f94.jpg)](https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/aws-azure-gcp-respond-to-the-2020-cloud-report/?utm_campaign=cooperpress-2020-Q2&utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=primary-db-weekly-cloud-report-respond) 

[🥊 AWS, GCP, & Azure Punch Back at the 2020 Cloud Report](https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/aws-azure-gcp-respond-to-the-2020-cloud-report/?utm_campaign=cooperpress-2020-Q2&utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=primary-db-weekly-cloud-report-respond) — AWS, GCP, & Azure each responded to the Cockroach Labs 2020 Cloud Report with instructions on how to tune their respective clouds for optimal performance. 

Cockroach Labs sponsor   

[How `io_uring` and eBPF Will Revolutionize Programming in Linux](https://thenewstack.io/how-io_uring-and-ebpf-will-revolutionize-programming-in-linux/) — Even more exciting times are coming for development on Linux thanks to these technologies. A good overview from an engineer at [ScyllaDB.](https://www.scylladb.com/) 

Glauber Costa   

[kvrocks: An Open Source, RocksDB-based, Redis-compatible Database](https://github.com/bitleak/kvrocks) — You know Redis’s API is good when _so many_ projects continue to implement it for themselves. kvrocks brings the Redis API (with [pretty good support](https://github.com/bitleak/kvrocks/blob/master/docs/support-commands.md)) together with the RocksDB persistent key-value store. Written in C++. 

Bit Leak   

[Mireo SpaceTime: An Absurdly Fast Spatiotemporal Database?](https://blog.mireo.hr/mireo-spacetime-an-absurdly-fast-spatiotemporal-database) — The SpaceTime database provides unprecedented analytical tools speed, sometimes outperforming other state-of-the-art solutions by three orders of magnitude. 

Miljen Mikić   

[Cloud GPUs Aimed at Data Scientists](https://www.datanami.com/2020/04/23/cloud-gpus-aimed-at-data-scientists/) — Core Scientific, an AI and cloud infrastructure vendor, is teaming with GPU-accelerated analytics specialist SQream Technologies to deliver a “GPU Cloud for Data Scientists.” 

Datanami   

[An Easy Postgres 12 and pgAdmin 4 Setup with Docker](https://info.crunchydata.com/blog/easy-postgresql-12-and-pgadmin-4-setup-with-docker) — Docker provides an easy and loosely coupled way to get things set up in a development environment. 

Jonathan S. Katz   

[Why We Index Everything](https://rockset.com/blog/converged-indexing-the-secret-sauce-behind-rocksets-fast-queries/) — Tired of constantly managing indexes to speed up queries? Learn about how Rockset automatically indexes every field in a row-based store, column-based store, and search index. 

Rockset sponsor   

[Redis Labs Moving RedisJSON to a New Codebase Written in Rust](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/redisjson/ep8FZyS_W7E/DX6aZEbfAQAJ) — [RedisJSON](https://github.com/RedisJSON/RedisJSON) provides a JSON data type to Redis and it’s been ported from C to Rust for better safety and developer experience. 

Gavrie Philipson (Redis Labs)   

[Replicate Multiple Postgres Servers to a Single MongoDB Server using Logical Decoding Output Plugin](https://www.highgo.ca/2020/04/17/replicate-multiple-postgresql-servers-to-a-single-mongodb-server-using-logical-decoding-output-plugin/) 

David Zhang   

[xsv: A Fast CSV Command Line Toolkit Written in Rust](https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv) — Another ‘Swiss Army knife’ for your slightly structured data. 

Andrew Gallant  

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