--- title: "This week's database news, issue 67" publication: "DB Weekly" issue: 67 published_at: "2015-08-14" canonical_url: "https://dbweekly.com/issues/67" --- Database Weekly 67 . This week's database news -[Read this on the Web](http://dbweekly.com/issues/67) [Database Weekly](http://dbweekly.com) Issue 67 — August 14, 2015 Featured [Google's Call to Stop Grooming Data and Accept Its Infinite Arrival](http://thenewstack.io/googles-call-to-stop-grooming-data-and-accept-its-infinite-arrival/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Some reflections on Google’s Cloud Dataflow. The ‘dataflow model’ leans on the idea that database systems need to handle never ending streams of data without grouping it into finite ‘pools of information’ we perform operations on. The New Stack [Database Versioning Best Practices](http://enterprisecraftsmanship.com/2015/08/10/database-versioning-best-practices/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A look at database versioning best practices for when your app is distributed across multiple environments or even clients. Vladimir Khorikov [VividCortex - the New Face of Database Monitoring](http://t.sidekickopen13.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XYg4WJ3rsN6448bPf6xSsW2BgSpx56dQQddQpf6002?t=https%3A%2F%2Fvividcortex.com%2F%3Futm_source%3Dpaid%26utm_medium%3Ddbw&si=6148852320567296&pi=5783cdb1-275a-4db4-ffcc-3eff454d2604) — VividCortex is the best way to see what is happening on your production servers. Unlike traditional monitoring, we measure and analyze the system’s work and resource consumption. This leads directly to better performance for IT as a whole, at reduced cost and effort. Vivid Cortexsponsored [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/6f0f4bb4.png)](http://t.sidekickopen13.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XYg4WJ3rsN6448bPf6xSsW2BgSpx56dQQddQpf6002?t=https%3A%2F%2Fvividcortex.com%2F%3Futm_source%3Dpaid%26utm_medium%3Ddbw&si=6148852320567296&pi=5783cdb1-275a-4db4-ffcc-3eff454d2604) [Data Has A Shape](http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/07/data-has-a-shape.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — An interview with Gurjeet Singh, CEO of machine learning company Ayasdi, about using topology to uncover the ‘shape’ of your data. O'Reilly Media [The Missing Link to Disrupt the Database Industry](http://dataandco.expertly.io/post/126410456118/the-missing-link-to-disrupt-the-database-industry?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — OrientDB’s president thinks that bringing together both the document and graph database models along with an SQL interface is the way forward. Luca Olivari [The Many Flavors of NoSQL](https://speakerdeck.com/bradleyholt/the-many-flavors-of-nosql-at-that-conference?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A slide deck from That Conference. Bradley Holt [RethinkDB 2.1 Released](http://rethinkdb.com/blog/2.1-release/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Includes automatic failover, ability to add and remove nodes from a cluster without any downtime, SSL access, and more. RethinkDB [Making Postgres Bloom](http://www.pipelinedb.com/blog/making-postgres-bloom?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Bloom filters are a probabilistic data structure that are space efficient for membership queries in a set of data (at the cost of false positives). Here’s a walk through of recreating their functionality in Postgres. Usman Masood In brief [Announcing General Availability of Google Cloud Dataflow and Cloud Pub/Sub](http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/08/Announcing-General-Availability-of-Google-Cloud-Dataflow-and-Cloud-Pub-Sub.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Google Cloud Platform Blognews [The Future of NoSQL: Towards a Powerful Enterprise Ready Solution](http://info.basho.com/Future-of-NoSQL-Webinar-LP.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A webinar taking place on September 1st. Bashonews [SQL Injection Attacks, Explained Visually](https://blog.barricade.io/sql-injection-attacks-visually-explained/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Jack Leonardtutorial [Common SQL Clauses and Their Equivalents in Java 8 Streams](http://blog.jooq.org/2015/08/13/common-sql-clauses-and-their-equivalents-in-java-8-streams/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Java, SQL and jOOQtutorial [Architecting for Failure - Disaster Recovery of MySQL/MariaDB Galera Cluster](http://www.severalnines.com/blog/architecting-failure-disaster-recovery-mysqlmariadb-galera-cluster?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Severalninestutorial [Virtual Columns and Effective Functional Indexes in InnoDB](http://mysqlserverteam.com/virtual-columns-and-effective-functional-indexes-in-innodb/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) MySQL Server Blogtutorial [How To Install ClusterControl for Easy MySQL Galera Cluster Management](http://cloudstats.me/2015/08/13/howto-install-clustercontrol-from-severalnines-for-easy-mysql-galera-cluster-management/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) CloudStatstutorial [Running V8 (JavaScript) Isolates in A Multi-Threaded ArangoDB Database](https://www.arangodb.com/2015/08/running-v8-isolates-in-a-multi-threaded-arangodb-database/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — “ArangoDB allows running user-defined JavaScript code in the database. This can be used for more complex, stored procedures-like database operations.” ArangoDBtutorial [Evolution From SQL Scripts to SQL Documents](http://shards.io/doc/sql_documents.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Aliaksandr Aliashkevichopinion [Please Use ANSI-92 SQL Join Syntax](http://mikemainguy.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/please-use-ansi-92-sql-join-syntax.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Mike Mainguyopinion [The MySQL Query Cache: Worst Enemy or Best Friend?](https://www.percona.com/blog/2015/08/07/mysql-query-cache-worst-enemy-best-friend/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Perconaopinion Database Weekly is curated by Peter Cooper [Read this issue on the Web](http://dbweekly.com/issues/67) [See our archives](http://dbweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*) [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*) Published by [Cooperpress](https://cooperpress.com/) Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Lincoln Way, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK