Elasticsearch as a Time Series Data Store — Elasticsearch is commonly called a ‘search server’ but it’s ultimately a document database underneath, and it turns out it works well as a time series database too.

Naming Conventions in Database Modeling — Naming conventions are a key part of a well-built data model. Here’s an opinionated look at the basics.

0xDBE: JetBrains' New Database Tools / IDE — JetBrains are well known for their developer IDEs, but now they’re working on an IDE for DBAs and SQL developers. It’s not quite ready, however.

Redis Performance Dashboard and Autoscaling from RedisGreen — Ever wonder what your Redis server was actually doing? Find out with RedisGreen's dashboard and monitoring tools.

5 Things We Hate About Spark — Spark has dethroned MapReduce and changed big data forever, but that rapid ascent has been accompanied by frustrations.

MemDB: A Distributed Transactional In-Memory Database — It’s MongoDB compatible, but includes ACID transaction support.

The Most Popular Relational Databases — Plumbr monitors a large number of JVMs to detect expensive JDBC operations. Here they share the most common relational databases they see (naturally it’s biased to Java/JVM users).

Exploring a Pulitzer-Winning Medicare Investigation with SQL — Aimed at data journalists, but perhaps a good dataset on which to practice your SQL skills as well.