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title: "This week's database news, issue 35"
publication: "DB Weekly"
issue: 35
published_at: "2014-10-24"
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This week's database news, issue 35

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DB WeeklyIssue 35 — October 24, 2014

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[How to Fake a Database Design (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1tcbhWLiUM)YAPC::Europe 2014Find terms like ‘transitive dependencies’ and ‘Boyce-Codd normal form’ intimidating? Curtis Poe covers the essentials of creating a DBA-approved database in a refreshing and approachable way.


[eBay Open Sources A Big, Fast SQL-on-Hadoop Database](https://gigaom.com/2014/10/22/ebay-open-sources-a-big-fast-sql-on-hadoop-database/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email)GigaOMeBay has open sourced a database technology called Kylin that takes advantage of distributed processing and the HBase data store to return faster results for SQL queries over Hadoop data.


[Don’t Sacrifice Performance for Flexibility](http://www.rackspace.com/blog/big-data-on-bare-metal-dont-sacrifice-performance-for-flexibility/?cm_mmc=managed-_-cloud-_-contentnam-_-dbweekly-baremeta)RackspaceSponsoredIn the world of Big Data, bare metal is king. With Big Data OnMetal you can take advantage of the flexibility of the cloud and the performance of bare metal - the best of both worlds. [Read the 3 reasons](http://www.rackspace.com/blog/big-data-on-bare-metal-dont-sacrifice-performance-for-flexibility/?cm_mmc=managed-_-cloud-_-contentnam-_-dbweekly-baremeta) why this is a game changer for your Hadoop environment.

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[Survey: Mega-Vendors Still Dominate Database Management Market](http://www.datanami.com/2014/10/22/survey-mega-vendors-still-dominate-database-management-market/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email)DatanamiGartner’s ‘Magic Quadrant’ survey of the operational database management systems market found a clear gap between its leaders and niche players. Only MongoDB was cited as a ‘challenger’ at this stage.


[How to Effectively Map SQL Data to a NoSQL Store](http://www.infoq.com/articles/map-sql-nosql?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email)InfoQFoundationDB’s Sytze Harkema looks at some of the practicalities of mapping SQL data to a key-value store.


[Multi-table Full-text Search with Postgres](http://calebthompson.io/talks/search.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email)Sometimes basic searching on a single column is fine, but often you need something more powerful. Fortunately Postgres’ full text search can help, and here’s a great talk which digs in to it.


[Oracle Reinvents Database Protection with Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance](http://www.oracle.com/us/dm/oraclezerodataloss-2327942.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email)OracleLarry Ellison has announced the general availability of Oracle’s ‘Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance’, an appliance that can protect thousands of databases through continuous real-time backup from system memory.


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