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title: "This week's database news, issue 39"
publication: "DB Weekly"
issue: 39
published_at: "2014-11-21"
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This week's database news, issue 39

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DB WeeklyIssue 39 — November 21, 2014

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[LinkedIn Aims To Tame Giant Datasets With Cubert](http://www.fastcolabs.com/3038722/linkedin-aims-to-tame-giant-datasets-with-cubert?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email)Fast Company[Cubert](http://linkedin.github.io/Cubert/) is a fast and efficient batch computation engine for complex analysis and reporting of massive datasets on Hadoop.


[My Graph Epiphany](https://medium.com/@mesirii/my-graph-epiphany-b64ec4e3a965?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email)Michael HungerData and software engineers are increasingly seeing graphs as an ideal data model for today’s connected world, and Michael Hunger shares his own tale of how it all came together to inspire you too.


[MongoDB DIY vs. MongoDB on ObjectRocket [Infographic\]](http://www.rackspace.com/blog/mongodb-diy-vs-mongodb-on-objectrocket-infographic/?cm_mmc=data-_-mongodb-_-contentawareness-_-dbweekly-infographic)RackspaceSponsoredWhile configuration, development and deployment are relatively straightforward, scaling NoSQL technologies, like MongoDB can be anything but. In fact, many users report significant pain at the critical stages where they need to scale. [Read more](http://www.rackspace.com/blog/mongodb-diy-vs-mongodb-on-objectrocket-infographic/?cm_mmc=data-_-mongodb-_-contentawareness-_-dbweekly-infographic) about DIY MongoDB vs. MongoDB on ObjectRocket.

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[Splice Machine 1.0 Offers Speedy, Scalable SQL On Hadoop](http://www.infoworld.com/article/2849681/big-data/splice-machines-sql-on-hadoop-speedy-scalable.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email)InfoWorldSplice Machine update offers cross-integration with Hadoop apps and supports migration paths from other databases.


[Lovefield: An SQL-like Query Engine by Google](http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/11/lovefield?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email)InfoQLovefield is a JavaScript library providing an SQL-like query engine to web developers who want the benefits of a relational database.


[Announcing MongoDB 2.8.0-rc0 Release Candidate and Bug Hunt](http://blog.mongodb.org/post/102461818738/announcing-mongodb-2-8-0-rc0-release-candidate-and-bug?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email)MongoDB BlogThe first release candidate of MongoDB 2.8 is out, headlined by improved concurrency (including document-level locking), compression, and pluggable storage engines.


[From Hadoop to Spark in 4 Months: Lessons Learned](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3-lokUFqvA)Radius IntelligenceRadius migrated their core infrastructure from Hadoop to [Spark](https://spark.apache.org/) and this presentation covers what was learnt.


[CouchDB 2.0 Counters MongoDB with Improved Scaling](http://www.infoworld.com/article/2848127/nosql/couchdb-20-counters-mongodb-with-improved-scaling.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email)InfoWorld


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