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Issue 88 — January 22, 2016
Featured
dbbench: Bringing Active Benchmarking to Databases — dbbench is a fast, lightweight database workload generator that executes a workload defined a flexible configuration file.
Alex Reece
Engine.so: A Catalog of Embeddable Data Storage Engines — A quick list of 21 different embeddable databases from obvious candidates like SQLite and Berkeley DB to unusual ones like Rlite and UpscaleDB.
Dmitry Simonenko    tools   
OneCache: A Replicated Key/Value Store Accessible Via The Memcached Protocol — OneCache nodes natively support clustering and best effort replication. Adding nodes into the cluster effectively increases the in-memory storage capability of the cache.
Alex Dadgar    code   
PostgreSQL Past, Present, and Future: Moving the Goalposts — Learn about PostgreSQL: the history, the present, and the future from Robert Haas, Chief Architect, Database Server at EnterpriseDB and PostgreSQL Major Contributor and Committer.
EnterpriseDB    sponsored   
Business Logic in The Database. Yes or No? It Depends — Why is it so controversial to have business logic in the database? In which situations is it truly the right place and when is it not? Lukas Eder investigates.
Lukas Eder
MySQL to Amazon Redshift Replication: A How-To Guide — Why do companies replicate their MySQL databases to Amazon Redshift and how can you approach it yourself?
Itamar Weiss    tutorial   
Impress Your Coworkers by Using SQL UNPIVOT — Some advanced SQL wrangling indeed.
Jooq    tutorial   
Adding Columns with Default Values to Really Large Postgres Tables from Rails — For most frameworks it’s common for you to set a default value when you add a new column, the problem is this can cause a full table re-write and hold a lock–read: not good. There’s a few methods to work around this.
WeWork Engineering    tutorial   
In brief
Unlimited Scalability & Unprecedented Speed with In-Memory Computing — GridGain enables high-performance transactions, real-time streaming and fast analytics using a distributed, massively parallel architecture.
GridGain In-Memory Data Fabric    tools    sponsored   
Survey Sees Spark Emerging in 2016
Datanami    news   
MariaDB Raises $9M More, Michael Howard Named New CEO, Monty Widenius CTO — The company behind the ‘successor’ fork (of sorts) of MySQL continues to march ahead.
TechCrunch    news   
Hadoop Market is Neck and Neck, Forrester Says — Forrester ‘found four strong performers in a market it says is neck and neck.’
Datanami    news   
One Approach to Boosting Data Accuracy at Scale
Datanami    news   
What Does An Oracle Audit Look Like? This One Certainly Wasn't Pretty — Mars Inc. filed a lawsuit to get Oracle to scale back its license auditing efforts.
ComputerWorld    news   
How to Install MongoDB 3 on Ubuntu 14.04
Muhammad Panji    tutorial   
Finding Nearest Neighbors in SQL — A look at using Pythagoras’ Theorem to calculate distances in SQL.
Periscope    tutorial   
Getting Started with JSON Support in SQL Server 2016
Database Journal    tutorial   
Testing Apache Cassandra with Jepsen
DataStax    tutorial   
SQL or NoSQL
Shauli Gal    opinion   
schemazen: Script and Create SQL Server Objects Quickly
Seth Reno    tools   
Rethinking SIMD Vectorization for In-Memory Databases [PDF] — An academic paper.
Polychroniou, Raghavan and Ross
Real-time Amazon Aurora performance monitoring — Collect and aggregate metrics from across your Amazon Aurora cluster with ease. Correlate Aurora metrics with metrics from the rest of your stack. Try it today with a 14 day unlimited free trial.
Datadog    tools    sponsored   
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