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Issue 92 — February 19, 2016
Featured
Five Online Database Modelling Services — Browser technology has progressed so rapidly that online database modelling tools have become viable. Are they good enough to use now? Robert Sheldon finds out.
Robert Sheldon    tools   
Using Cassandra for Analytics: A Performance and Storage Analysis — Comparing the effects of storage format, modeling/filtering, caching, and other effects on analytical query speed and storage cost in Apache Cassandra.
Evan Chan
Spark Rises to Become Most Active Open Source Project in Big Data — Adoption interest in Spark has topped MapReduce, says a new survey. What’s supporting interest is the need for speed, boosting agility, and revenues.
Tech Republic    news   
Database Compatibility for Oracle Explained — Learn how organizations can reduce their database spend by 80% or more by deploying EDB Postgres in place of traditional database solutions like Oracle, according to calculations in a recent Gartner report.
EnterpriseDB    sponsored   
18+ Best Online Resources for Learning SQL and Database Concepts
Patrycja Dybka
How to Perform Random Queries on MongoDB — A common problem across all types of database, MongoDB 3.2 now has a $sample operator that implements a native random sample operation over a collection data set.
Norberto Leite
10 Tips for Integrating NoSQL Databases in Your Business — NoSQL databases provide the agility, scalability, performance and availability to support many applications today, but implementing them is not always easy. Here are 10 tips for integrating NoSQL systems in your organization.
CIO
mysqldump-secure: A MySQL Backup Tool with Security in Mind — Encryption is done before the backup file is written to disk to avoid possible race conditions.
cytopia    tools   
Design Your Database for Flexibility — “One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned is to spend extra effort thinking about the database when setting out to build something new.”
Dan Goldin    opinion   
Using GraphQL with NoSQL database ArangoDB — GraphQL is a Facebook-created query language for requesting datasets over the Web (it essentially provides an alternative to REST APIs). As a multi-model database, it’s possible to get it working with ArangoDB.
ArangoDB
Jobs
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Heroku
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In brief
SQLite Release 3.11.0 Released — Numerous optimizations and improved durability.
SQLite    news   
Databricks Community Edition: Apache Spark for All — A free version of Databricks’ cloud-based Spark platform. Aimed at anyone who wants to learn Spark.
Databricks    news   
Amazon RDS Now Supports Sharing Encrypted Database Snapshots with Other AWS Accounts
Amazon    news   
What Design Thinking Means for Data and Analytics
Datanami    news   
Apache Announces 'Arrow' as a Top-Level Project — Apache Arrow establishes a de-facto standard for columnar in-memory processing and interchange.
Apache Software Foundation    news   
Free O'Reilly Ebook: Building Real-Time Data Pipelines — Learn how to use Apache Spark and Kafka to build real-time data pipelines and database architectures for supporting real-time data workloads.
MemSQL    sponsored   
Bigram Frequencies in Pure SQL
Periscope    tutorial   
How to Migrate a Google App Engine Datastore to SQL using Go
Roman Kushnarenko    tutorial   
Hacking Microsoft SQL Server Without a Password — “What I found was that with a little packet hacking, I could take control of a Microsoft SQL Server box without having any stolen credentials using a Man in the Middle style attack.”
Anitian    tutorial   
Securing MongoDB Part 3: Database Auditing and Encryption
Mat Keep    tutorial   
Neo4j + Cassandra: Transferring Data from a Column Store to a Property Graph
William Lyon    tutorial   
SQL Server Unit Testing with tSQLt Framework
{coding}Sight    tutorial   
jOGlenn Paulley Gives Insight into SQL’s History
jOOQ Tuesdays    opinion   
DB Browser for SQLite
sqlitebrowser.​org    tools   
awesome-elasticsearch: A Curated List of Elasticsearch Resources
Dmytro Zharii    tools   
Accelerate Mobile App Dev — Telerik webinar featuring Forrester, Wednesday, March 9. Join free webinar.
Telerik    sponsored   
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