---
title: "This week's database news, issue 73"
publication: "DB Weekly"
issue: 73
published_at: "2015-10-02"
canonical_url: "https://dbweekly.com/issues/73"
---

Database Weekly 73   . 

This week's database news -[Read this on the Web](http://dbweekly.com/issues/73) 

[Database Weekly](http://dbweekly.com) Issue 73 — October 2, 2015     

Featured [Amazon Launches 'Elasticsearch Service' (ES)](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-elasticsearch-service/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Elasticsearch is a real-time, distributed search and analytics engine (which effectively acts like a document database too) and Amazon have launched a new service around it. AWS Official Blog [Rethinking NoSQL: 4.5 Reasons Why RethinkDB Is Worth a Look](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee1v_SuECRk&utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — RethinkDB is redefining NoSQL, in a good way. In this talk Rob Conery will show you the most compelling features of RethinkDB 2.0, and why it deserves consideration for your next project. Rob Coneryvideo [SQLite As An Application File Format](https://www.sqlite.org/appfileformat.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — In many cases, SQLite is a better choice than either a custom file format, a pile-of-files, or a wrapped pile-of-files. SQLite is a high-level, stable, reliable, cross-platform, widely-deployed, extensible, performant, accessible, concurrent file format. SQLite [Get more from Redis: Autoscaling and Performance Dashboard from RedisGreen](https://dashboard.redisgreen.net/new?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2015b&utm_content=primary&utm_term=getmore+autoscaling+performance) — Get insights quickly with our analytics dashboard. Track usage and quickly identify performance bottlenecks. All plans backed by support from engineers who have been scaling Redis for years. RedisGreensponsored [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/34bc0a64.png)](https://dashboard.redisgreen.net/new?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2015b&utm_content=primary&utm_term=getmore+autoscaling+performance) [Introducing U-SQL: A Language For Easy Big Data Processing](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2015/09/28/introducing-u-sql.aspx?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A language that’s part of Azure Data Lake Analytics that unifies the benefits of SQL with the expressive power of your own code. U-SQL’s scalable distributed query capability enables you to analyze data across relational stores such as Azure SQL Database. Microsoftnews [Clarifications About Redis and Memcached](http://antirez.com/news/94?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — In response to [Storing Data with Redis](http://www.mikeperham.com/2015/09/24/storing-data-with-redis/) where Mike Perham recommended memcached over Redis for caching, Redis’s creator clarifies why Redis really is a good choice for caching. Salvatore Sanfilippo [Lazy Redis is Better Redis](http://antirez.com/news/93?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — The creator of Redis shares the complex tale of implementing a non-blocking DEL (delete) command for data stored in a Redis instance. Salvatore Sanfilippo [NoSQL LinkedIn Skills Index for September 2015](https://blogs.the451group.com/information_management/2015/10/01/nosql-linkedin-skills-index-september-2015/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — “Once again MongoDB was responsible for more than 50% of all mentions of NoSQL database in LinkedIn member profiles in Q3, placing it way, way ahead of the nearest competitor.” Matthew Aslettnews [Modern SQL: The Inaugural Post](http://use-the-index-luke.com/blog/2015-09/modern-sql-inaugural-post?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Markus Winand, the author of _Use The Index, Luke_, has launched [Modern-SQL.com](http://modern-sql.com/) which has the aim of helping you explore modern SQL (SQL:2011 for now). Markus Winand [The Way to Open Source Hadoop Native SQL](http://blog.pivotal.io/big-data-pivotal/news/the-way-to-hadoop-native-sql?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Pivotal has open sourced [HAWQ](http://pivotal.io/big-data/pivotal-hdb) and [MADlib](http://madlib.net/), contributing them to the Apache Software Foundation meaning there is now a full featured, SQL standards compliant, interactive SQL engine for Hadoop available in open source. Pivotaltools Jobs [Golang Database/Distributed Systems Engineer at InfluxDB (anywhere)](https://boards.greenhouse.io/influxdb/jobs/66157#.VfBSgdNVhHw) — If you've got a background building databases or distributed systems and want to store and process data at scale using Go, please apply. InfluxDB In brief [SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview 2.4 Is Available](http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2015/09/30/sql-server-2016-community-technology-preview-2-4-is-available.aspx?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Microsoftnews [Google Launches Cloud Dataproc, A Managed Spark And Hadoop Big Data Service](http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/23/google-launches-cloud-dataproc-a-managed-spark-and-hadoop-big-data-service/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — The new Google Cloud Dataproc service sits between the Spark data processing engine or Hadoop framework directly on VMs and a fully managed service like Cloud Dataflow. TechCrunchnews [How Will New Memory Technologies Impact In-Memory Databases?](http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/9/23/how-will-new-memory-technologies-impact-in-memory-databases.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) High Scalabilityopinion [Architecture of SQLite](https://www.sqlite.org/arch.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) SQLite [RDBMS Genealogy: A PDF of the History of Databases](https://hpi.de/naumann/projects/rdbms_genealogy.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Hasso-Plattner-Institut [Petabyte-Scale Data Pipelines with Docker, Luigi and Elastic Spot Instances](http://tech.adroll.com/blog/data/2015/09/22/data-pipelines-docker.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Adroll [Scaling Writes on Amazon DynamoDB Tables with Global Secondary Indexes](http://blogs.aws.amazon.com/bigdata/post/Tx3KPZDXIBJEQ4B/Scaling-Writes-on-Amazon-DynamoDB-Tables-with-Global-Secondary-Indexes?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) AWS Big Data Blog [SQL vs NoSQL: The Differences](http://www.sitepoint.com/sql-vs-nosql-differences/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) SitePoint [FreeGeoDB: Free Database of Geographic Place Names and Corresponding Geospatial Data](https://github.com/delight-im/FreeGeoDB?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) delight.​imcode    

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