---
title: "This week's database news, issue 82"
publication: "DB Weekly"
issue: 82
published_at: "2015-12-04"
canonical_url: "https://dbweekly.com/issues/82"
---

Database Weekly 82   . 

This week's database news -[Read this on the Web](http://dbweekly.com/issues/82) 

[Database Weekly](http://dbweekly.com) Issue 82 — December 4, 2015     

Featured [sqlmap: Automatic SQL Injection and Database Takeover Tool](http://sqlmap.org/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — An open source penetration testing tool that automates the process of detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws and taking over of database servers. Guimaraes and Stampartools [DGraph: A Scalable, Distributed, Low Latency Graph Database](https://github.com/dgraph-io/dgraph?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — 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. Manish R Jaincode [Database monitoring at any scale](http://dtdg.co/1PkYlNZ) — 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. Datadogsponsored [I Dreamed of a Perfect Database](https://newrepublic.com/article/124425/dreamed-perfect-database?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Some interesting thoughts from one of the most creative thinkers in the technology field right now. Paul Ford [Scraping the Web with Nutch for Elasticsearch](https://qbox.io/blog/scraping-the-web-with-nutch-for-elasticsearch?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Learn how to configure the Nutch web crawler to feed data into Elasticsearch for querying. Roland Koflertutorial [How Redis is Used in Practice](https://redislabs.com/blog/how-redis-is-used-in-practice?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — 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. Leena Joshi [Is The Cloud The Safest Place For Your Critical Databases?](https://www.gomorpheus.com/blog/2015-11-29-new-techniques-for-ensuring-cloud-database-security?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A look at how cloud services act as data-security aggregators by applying big-data principles to spotting and thwarting new data threats. Morpheus [Using Graph Analysis to Decompose Monoliths into Microservices with Neo4j](http://www.kennybastani.com/2015/05/graph-analysis-microservice-neo4j.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Thoughts on developing microservices and applying a graph processing technique to simulate the decomposition of service architectures into microservices. Kenny Bastani Jobs [What's More Lame Than A QR Code?](https://hired.com/?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=dbweekly&utm_campaign=q4_15-petercooperpress&utm_term=sponsored&utm_content=120415-QR) — Spending time applying for jobs. Through Hired, companies reach out to you with interview requests, which include salary and other benefits upfront. Hired.​com In brief [The Ongoing Scourge That Is SQL Injection and Azure’s New SQL Database Threat Detection](http://www.troyhunt.com/2015/12/the-ongoing-scourge-that-is-sql.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Troy Huntnews [3 Major Things You Should Know About Apache Spark 1.6](http://www.datanami.com/2015/11/30/3-major-things-you-should-know-about-apache-spark-1-6/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Datanamitutorial [Creating a Histogram in Redshift](https://periscopedata.com/blog/creating-histogram-redshift.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Periscopetutorial [How Does Database Design Help Organize Teachers, Lessons, and Students?](http://www.vertabelo.com/blog/technical-articles/how-does-database-design-help-organize-teachers-lessons-and-students?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Emil Drkušićtutorial [Using Ansible to Set Up PostgreSQL](http://blog.apcelent.com/using-ansible-to-setup-postgresql.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — The entire process of using the Ansible conf management and task execution system to deploy Postgres. Apcelent Blogtutorial [Move Documents from MongoDB to Couchbase](http://blog.couchbase.com/2015/december/move-documents-from-mongodb-to-couchbase?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Laurent Doguintutorial [How to Monitor Cassandra Performance Metrics](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/how-to-monitor-cassandra-performance-metrics/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Datadogtutorial [Test the Distributed Open Source RDBMS for Real-Time Big Data Built on PostgreSQL](http://info.citusdata.com/BigDataDBW.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Download CitusDB, the distributed PostgreSQL 9.4 database, to gain [real-time insights](http://info.citusdata.com/BigDataPW3.html) Citus Datatools sponsored [Why We Decided to Upgrade to MongoDB 3.0](http://blog.soom.la/2015/12/decided-upgrade-mongodb-3-0.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Onn El-Boheropinion [How Backstory.io Uses Neo4j to Graph the News](http://neo4j.com/blog/backstory-io-neo4j-graph-the-news/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Caleb Soteloopinion [Hadoop Creator Doug Cutting on Evolving and Succeeding in Open Source](https://medium.com/s-c-a-l-e/hadoop-creator-doug-cutting-on-evolving-and-succeeding-in-open-source-3277a42e5b6e?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email#.nb8thjkeu) Derrick Harrisopinion [Scaling ArangoDB to 1M JSON Writes Per Second On Mesosphere's DCOS](https://mesosphere.com/blog/2015/11/30/arangodb-benchmark-dcos/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Mesosphereopinion [Comparing A Giraffe to A Blender: Firebase and Redis](https://medium.com/@stockholmux/comparing-a-giraffe-to-a-blender-firebase-and-redis-d1a6a4075d49?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Kyleopinion [Choosing PostgreSQL Over MySQL or MariaDB](http://insights.dice.com/2015/12/03/choosing-postgresql-over-mysql-mariadb/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) David Boltonopinion [One Trillion Edges: Graph Processing at Facebook-Scale [PDF\]](http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol8/p1804-ching.pdf?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Ching, Edunov et al.​    

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