--- title: "This week's database news, issue 54" publication: "DB Weekly" issue: 54 published_at: "2015-04-10" canonical_url: "https://dbweekly.com/issues/54" --- This week's database news, issue 54 This week's database news, supported by Rackspace[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://dbweekly.com/issues/54) DB WeeklyIssue 54 — April 10, 2015 Supported by [![\](http://dbweekly.com/images/rackspacetrans.png)](http://rackspace.com/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) [Apache HBase Reaches 1.0](http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/04/apache-hbase-1-0?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email)InfoQAfter 7 years of active development, the non-relational database (modelled after Google’s BigTable) for the Hadoop ecosystem has hit the 1.0 milestone. [Michael Stonebraker Explains Oracle’s Obsolescence, Facebook’s Enormous Challenge & More](http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2015/03/30/michael-stonebraker-describes-oracles-obsolescence-facebooks-enormous-challenge/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email)Barron'sSome provocative views from a living database legend (who recently won a $1m Turing Award). He talks about column stores, the history of databases, social graphs, and more. [Redis 3.0 Released](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/redis-db/dO0bFyD_THQ/Uoo2GjIx6qgJ?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email)Salvatore SanfilippoA major release for the popular key-value cache and store. Better performance under load, an improved LRU algorithm, and better AOF rewrites. [A Conversation with The Creator of Redis](http://www.rackspace.com/blog/a-conversation-with-redis-creator-salvatore-sanfilippo/?cm_mmc=data-_-redis-_-Redis-Salvatore-_-dbweekly-newsletter)RackspaceSponsoredJust last month we were able to catch up with Redis creator, Salvatore Sanfilippo at RedisConf 2015. Sanfilippo touches on open source, the future of Redis, and the current Redis community. [Read more from Sanfilippo here.](http://www.rackspace.com/blog/a-conversation-with-redis-creator-salvatore-sanfilippo/?cm_mmc=data-_-redis-_-Redis-Salvatore-_-dbweekly-newsletter) [![Rackspace\](http://s3.amazonaws.com/nlga/uploads/item/image/35931/i.png)](http://www.rackspace.com/blog/a-conversation-with-redis-creator-salvatore-sanfilippo/?cm_mmc=data-_-redis-_-Redis-Salvatore-_-dbweekly-newsletter) [hyflow-go: A Geo-Replicated, Main-Memory, Highly Consistent Datastore](http://www.hyflow.org/hyflow-go/index.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email)Virginia TechA research project from Virginia Tech’s Systems Software Research Group. [DB-Engines: A Popularity Ranking of Database Systems](http://db-engines.com/en/ranking?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email)DB-EnginesIn March 2015, it seems MongoDB, Cassandra and Redis were on the up, pushing Postgres and SQLite down a position each. [Announcing Next Generation Drivers for MongoDB](http://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/announcing-next-generation-drivers-mongodb?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email)Andrew ErlichsonMongoDB drivers are under development that represent a fresh start following more formal specifications and things learnt since Mongo’s first release. [How We Scale VividCortex's Backend Systems](http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/3/30/how-we-scale-vividcortexs-backend-systems.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email)High ScalabilityLots of deep technical details about how they structure their data and the big wins they get from MySQL and Redis. [Crate: A Open Source Distributed SQL DB for the Docker Age](https://crate.io/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email)CRATE TechnologyA scalable database with auto-sharding, replication, and real time MapReduce. Jobs - [DevOps Engineer (Austin, TX)](https://uscareers-rackspace.icims.com/jobs/13168/devops-engineer--objectrocket/job?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email)ObjectRocket by Rackspace is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our team in Austin. Do you believe Open Source will always innovate faster? Is “Automate Everything” printed on the back of your hoodie? Are you most comfortable on the cutting edge of technology? If this describes you and you’re ready to attack some of the most complex problems in the industry, then it’s time for you to take on the challenge of being a DevOps Engineer at Rackspace. [Apply Today.](https://uscareers-rackspace.icims.com/jobs/13168/devops-engineer--objectrocket/job) Rackspace - [Database Administrator (Blacksburg, VA)](https://uscareers-rackspace.icims.com/jobs/11568/database-administrator/job?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email)Rackspace is seeking a Senior Database Administrator in our Blacksburg, VA office. The Senior DBA will be responsible for maintaining the company’s database systems (currently MS SQL Server) including back-up, performance tuning, capacity planning, monitoring critical events and documentation. [Learn More.](https://uscareers-rackspace.icims.com/jobs/11568/database-administrator/job) Rackspace In brief - [NoSQL Database Service Azure DocumentDB Now Generally Available](http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/04/08/nosql-database-service-azure-documentdb-now-generally-available/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) news Microsoft Azure - [MongoDB Counters Couchbase Performance Claims](http://www.informationweek.com/big-data/software-platforms/mongodb-counters-couchbase-performance-claims/a/d-id/1319696?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) news InformationWeek - [Booming Big Data Market Headed for $60B](http://www.datanami.com/2015/04/02/booming-big-data-market-headed-for-60b/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) news Datanami - [Oracle Database 12c Now Available on Amazon RDS](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-rds-update-oracle-database-12c-now-available/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) news AWS Official Blog - [What Apple's Purchase of FoundationDB Would Mean for NoSQL](http://www.datanami.com/2015/03/30/what-apples-purchase-of-foundationdb-would-mean-for-nosql/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) news Datanami - [A Comprehensive Guide to Moving From SQL to RethinkDB](https://www.airpair.com/rethinkdb/posts/moving-from-sql-to-rethinkdb?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A post about using RethinkDB, a NoSQL database, from the perspective of an engineer coming from an SQL background. Gordon Dent - [Build a Node-powered Chatroom Web App with MongoDB and Socket.io](http://www.sitepoint.com/build-node-js-powered-chatroom-web-app-node-mongodb-socket/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial SitePoint - [Oracle SQL Injection Guides and Whitepapers](https://haiderm.com/oracle-sql-injection-guides-and-whitepapers/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Haider Mahmood - [HOWTO Use JSON Functionality in PostgreSQL](http://stormatics.com/howto-use-json-functionality-in-postgresql/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Umair Shahid - [Apache Drill: Redefining SQL-on-Hadoop](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkcegazNuio) video See how Apache Drill is used with visualization tools to query multiple data sets from big data platforms. YouTube - [How InnoDB Lost Its Advantage](http://dom.as/2015/04/09/how-innodb-lost-its-advantage/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Domas Mituzas - [Appropriate Uses For SQLite](https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion “SQLite does not compete with client/server databases. SQLite competes with fopen().” SQLite.org - [SQLitePCL.raw 0.8.0: .NET Library for Low Level Access to SQLite](https://www.nuget.org/packages/SQLitePCL.raw/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) code NuGet Gallery - [redis-pipe: Treat Redis Lists like Unix Pipes](https://github.com/lukasmartinelli/redis-pipe?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) code Lukas Martinelli Curated by [Peter Cooper](http://twitter.com/peterc) and published by [Cooper Press](https://cooperpress.com/) for [Rackspace](http://www.rackspace.com/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email). Send feedback by simply replying to this mail. Want to sponsor an issue? 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