SQLite 3.9.0 Released — It’s adopted semantic versioning, and both the json1 and fts5 (Full Text Search 5) extensions are now part of the core.

Data Infrastructure at IFTTT — As a service that connects many other Internet services together, IFTTT handles a lot of data both in and out. This is a look at how they manage it all.

Benchmark: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Neo4j, OrientDB and ArangoDB — Note that ArangoDB (an open source multi-model NoSQL database) published this benchmark, so your mileage may vary (there was further discussion on this at Hacker News).

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Oracle Live SQL: SQL Documentation and Tutorials from Oracle — Lots of great code examples, and you can optionally run them ‘live’ on a real Oracle instance (but this requires a login).

The 10 Most Popular DB Engines (SQL and NoSQL) in 2015 — Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server hold the top 3 positions, with MongoDB, Cassandra and Redis climbing.

Couchbase Passes MongoDB in Functionality, CEO Claims — With Couchbase 4 now out, their CEO thinks features like N1QL, JSON joins, and the nesting and unnesting of JSON are giving Couchbase an edge.

GalaXQL 3.0: An SQL Tutorial Disguised As A Galaxy Simulation? — An interesting, interactive approach for a simple SQL tutorial.