Benchmarking Aurora vs MySQL: Is Amazon’s New DB 5x Faster? — Amazon’s Aurora MySQL-compatible database boasts up to a 5x performance increase, but how does it fare in reality?

What is the Actual Definition of First Normal Form (1NF)? — “We have precise definitions for other normal forms and there is no generally accepted definition of 1NF.”

The Magic of SQL: The 4 Jacks — The ‘SQL Wizard’ takes a database-leaning look at an old card trick, uses SQL to replicate it, and then shows some practical applications.

VividCortex - the New Face of Database Monitoring — 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.

Pinterest Open-sources Terrapin, A Tool for Serving Data From Hadoop — Terrapin is a new piece of open-source software designed to efficiently push data out of Hadoop and make it available for other systems to use.

Tackling Your Troubles – Building a Bug and Problem Database — A look at creating the logical model for a problem or “bug” reporting system.

Bye Bye MySQL and MongoDB. Guten Tag PostgreSQL — For a long time MongoDB and MySQL had a leg up on Postgres, one for user experience and the other for well… replication. Postgres has come a long way since those days and now is seen as a replacement for both as shown here.

Heroku Data Links with Postgres and Redis — Heroku has dramatically simplified the process of using Foreign Data Wrappers with PostgreSQL and Redis via its Data Links feature.

Pentesting Redis Servers — “By default the Redis server does not require authentication for client access. This is not a problem if Redis is only listening on localhost but often it is not.”