sqlmap: Automatic SQL Injection and Database Takeover Tool — An open source penetration testing tool that automates the process of detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws and taking over of database servers.

DGraph: A Scalable, Distributed, Low Latency Graph Database — A Go-based database built by someone who used to build distributed graph systems at Google. DGraph supports GraphQL as a query language and responds in JSON.

Database monitoring at any scale — Datadog natively collects hundreds of DB metrics: system resources, connections, locks, transactions, indexes, and more. Pre-built, fully customizable visualizations, alerts, and full-stack performance correlation. 14 day unlimited trial.

I Dreamed of a Perfect Database — Some interesting thoughts from one of the most creative thinkers in the technology field right now.

Scraping the Web with Nutch for Elasticsearch — Learn how to configure the Nutch web crawler to feed data into Elasticsearch for querying.

How Redis is Used in Practice — Redis Labs surveyed 116 of their users to see what different ways they were using the popular key-value/data structure database. Its raw speed was a top selling point.

Is The Cloud The Safest Place For Your Critical Databases? — A look at how cloud services act as data-security aggregators by applying big-data principles to spotting and thwarting new data threats.

Using Graph Analysis to Decompose Monoliths into Microservices with Neo4j — Thoughts on developing microservices and applying a graph processing technique to simulate the decomposition of service architectures into microservices.