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“In prior releases, [scaling] required a level of expertise that not everyone has. With MongoDB 3.0 it’s a lot easier to scale your system.”

Lukas Eder

Lukas always has good stuff to share but this time it’s other people’s articles he considers ‘must reads’ if you’re into SQL.

RedisConf 2015   Sponsored

If you happen to use this popular key-value cache and store, you won’t want to miss RedisConf 2015 in San Francisco, California. RedisConf, on March 5th, is this year’s definitive Redis event where industry pros will gather to examine the future of this open-source data structure. The event will begin with a keynote from Salvatore Sanfilippo, the inventor of Redis. Learn More.

Markus Winand

SQL gets a lot of flack for not being new and updated and, well, fun. But the truth is it’s come a long way from what it was decades ago. Here’s a great deck which highlights some of the new and awesome things in the SQL standard.

Eliot Horowitz

MongoDB 3.0 has been announced, with the ‘3’ representing a new phase in Mongo’s lifeline. New features include document-level concurrency control and transparent on-disk compression.

DBTA

The 5: in-memory computing, the resurgence of SQL, online scaling, Apache Spark, and up-to-the-moment analytics.

Information Age

When it comes to hosting your own data, security and operations procedures are of paramount importance.