Using Checksums to Verify Syncing 100M Database Records — A Shopify engineer thinks through the challenge of rapidly checking that two datastores are in sync using SQL.

Simon Hørup Eskildsen

Presto Poised for a Breakout Year as Data Explosion Continues — Presto is a federated SQL query engine developed at Facebook as a follow-on to Apache Hive and its popularity is growing. Facebook uses it for running interactive queries against several internal data stores, including their 300PB data warehouse.

Alex Woodie

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Why CockroachDB and PostgreSQL Are Compatible — Postgres and its wire protocol have continued to increase their status as building blocks of other databases and CockroachDB deliberately implemented Postgres compatibility as a way ‘to be accessible to an ecosystem of drivers, existing code, and developer knowledge’. We’ll see more of this in 2021, I’m sure.

Raphael 'kena' Poss

TimescaleDB 2.0 Now GA: A Petabyte-Scale Relational Database for Time-Series — We announced TimescaleDB 2.0 back in October but it’s now officially GA. What does 2.0 get us? Distributed hypertables, user-defined actions, and a swathe of enterprise features added into the community edition.

Ajay Kulkarni and Mike Freedman (Timescale)

PostgreSQL Is DB-Engines' 'DBMS of the Year 2020' — DB-Engines is a popular DBMS knowledge base and each year they have a ‘DBMS of the Year’ based on popularity growth. MySQL had the honor in 2019.

Paul Andlinger and Matthias Gelbmann

Ingesting MongoDB Atlas Data using Amazon EventBridge — EventBridge is an AWS service that provides an event bus for tying together various SaaS apps and other AWS services.

James Beswick (AWS)

Using Amazon DocumentDB's Read Autoscaling — Amazon Document DB (with MongoDB compatibility) is AWS’s MongoDB-(mostly)-compatible document database service and as storage and compute are separated, scaling is really flexible, as demonstrated here.

Randy DeFauw (AWS)

Average Pull Request Merge Time with AskGit SQL — AskGit is an open source command line tool for running SQL queries on git repositories.

Patrick DeVivo

New Hard Disk Write Head Analytical Technology To Increase HDD Capacity — Some rather mind boggling research has been taking place that involves imaging the magnetization dynamics of HDD write heads in order to eventually increase hard drive capacity.

Tohoku University

Another Redis Desktop Manager 1.4.0 — An open source desktop client for working with Redis that promises it ‘won’t crash’ if dealing with large numbers of keys. Supports TLS, dark mode, and more – seems like the author has put in some serious effort here.

qii404

simple-graph: A Simple Graph Database on Top of SQLite — Thanks to its recursive CTE support, you can rig up a graph database on SQLite anyway, but if you’re a Pythonista you might find this abstraction interesting.

Denis Papathanasiou

CYBERTEC PostgreSQL Enterprise Edition: Fully Encrypted & High-Performing — Check out the highly secure PostgreSQL distribution with advanced features like user-friendly monitoring and 24/7 support.

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rqlite 5.8: A Distributed Relational Database Built on SQLite — I sometimes wonder if Postgres and SQLite are in a secret fight to have the most number of other databases built on top of them :-) 5.8.0 of this popular distributed database adds support for TLS connections.

rqlite

Database Lab Engine 2.1: Instant Clones of Large Postgres Databases for Dev Environments — Provision independent non-production environments with multi-terabyte Postgres databases in a few seconds without extra costs.

Postgres.ai

DevOps Engineer at X-Team (Remote) — Join the most energizing community for developers and work on projects for Riot Games, FOX, Sony, Coinbase, and more.

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