---
title: "This week's database news, issue 94"
publication: "DB Weekly"
issue: 94
published_at: "2016-03-04"
canonical_url: "https://dbweekly.com/issues/94"
---

Database Weekly 94   . 

This week's database news -[Read this on the Web](http://dbweekly.com/issues/94) 

[Database Weekly](http://dbweekly.com) Issue 94 — March 4, 2016     

Featured [GridDB: A New Key Value Store from Toshiba](https://github.com/griddb/griddb_nosql?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A scalable, high performance key value store focusing on sensor data stored in time series. GridDB [ActorDB: A Distributed SQL Database](https://github.com/biokoda/actordb?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A distributed SQL database with the scalability of a KV store, while keeping the query capabilities of a relational database. It supports the MySQL protocol for ease of use. Biokodatools [OmniDB: A Web Tool for Database Management](http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/1078827/OmniDB-A-Web-Tool-for-Database-Management?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A web tool that simplifies database management focusing on interactivity, designed to be powerful and lightweight. Supports MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and more. William Ivanskitools [Government Open Source Mandates Drive Postgres Adoption Worldwide](http://www.enterprisedb.com/postgres-plus-edb-blog/keith-alsheimer/government-open-source-mandates-drive-postgres-adoption-world?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=nl&utm_campaign=2016govtopensource) — Commercial DBMSs with its high license and maintenance costs and vendor lock-in makes it difficult for government IT managers to effectively meet new operating challenges. Open source DBMSs provide performance and security at enormously reduced costs – learn more. EnterpriseDBsponsored [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/2afa4f56.png)](http://www.enterprisedb.com/postgres-plus-edb-blog/keith-alsheimer/government-open-source-mandates-drive-postgres-adoption-world?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=nl&utm_campaign=2016govtopensource) [Dejavu: A Browser for Elasticsearch](http://appbaseio.github.io/dejaVu/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A serverless, open source app built on React that lets you sort and filter through data held in Elasticsearch. Appbasetools [VisualAlchemist: A Web-Based Database Diagramming and Automation Tool](https://github.com/prahladyeri/VisualAlchemist?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — It’s open source but there’s an [online demo here.](http://visualalchemist.prahladyeri.com/) Prahlad Yeritools [Datazenit 1.0: A Web-based Database Administration Tool](https://datazenit.com/blog/2016/03/1/datazenit-official-release/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A clean web-based client for interacting with both Postgres and MySQL. Datazenit [pgclimb: Export Data From PostgreSQL Into Different Data Formats](https://github.com/lukasmartinelli/pgclimb?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A handy utility to make it easy to export data from PostgreSQL into your desired format (including JSON, JSON Lines, CSV, XLSX, and XML). Lukas Martinellicode [DbDat: Db Database Assessment Tool](https://github.com/foospidy/DbDat?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Performs checks on a database to evaluate security. Checks are performed by running queries or reading database configuration files. The goal is to highlight configuration issues that need immediate attention. Px Mxtools Jobs [PostgreSQL Platform Engineer at Compose (Remote - US/UK/CAN)](https://compose.io/jobs#platform-engineer) — Compose is looking to provide the best managed PostgreSQL. If you love PostgreSQL, have experience working with distributed systems, and love solving fun data-related problems, we have the perfect opportunity for you. Compose, an IBM company [Stop Applying to Jobs - Let Companies Apply to You](https://hired.com/?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=dbweekly&utm_term=cat-tech-database&utm_content=stopapplyingtojobs&utm_campaign=q1-16&utm_location=us) — On Hired, sign up in 10 minutes and get offers from top companies like Facebook, Uber, & Stripe. Engineers get an average of 5 offers on the platform in 1 week. Try it today. Hired.​com In brief [Unlimited Scalability & Unprecedented Speed with In-Memory Computing](http://www.gridgain.com/products/in-memory-data-fabric/) — GridGain enables high-performance transactions, real-time streaming and fast analytics using a distributed, massively parallel architecture. GridGain In-Memory Data Fabricsponsored [Hortonworks Splits 'Core' Hadoop from Extended Services](http://www.datanami.com/2016/03/01/hortonworks-splits-core-hadoop-from-extended-services/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Datanaminews [How to Deploy Elasticsearch with Docker in 10 Steps](https://medium.appbase.io/how-to-deploy-elasticsearch-with-docker-in-10-steps-712dde819ae?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Sacheendra Talluritutorial [How to Compare Databases](http://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2016/02/23/how-to-compare-databases/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Software Engineering Dailytutorial [Tailing the MongoDB Replica Set Oplog with Scala and Akka Stream](http://khamrakulov.de/tailing_the_mongodb_replica_set_oplog_with_scala_and_akka_streams/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Timur Khamrakulovtutorial [Managing a Six-Figure Ad Budget with SQL](https://periscopedata.com/blog//managing-a-six-figure-ad-budget-with-sql.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Periscopetutorial [Using Apache Spark to Predict Attack Vectors Among Billions of Users and Trillions of Events](https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/using-apache-spark-to-predict-attack-vectors-among-billions-of-users-and-trillions-of-events?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A podcast interview with Fang Yu, the founder and CTO of DataVisor. Ben Lorica [Learn SQL in 30 Minutes Using R and sqldf](http://analyticsplaybook.org/api/learn_sql_30_minutes.html?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Analytics Playbookvideo [Tachyon Caching Is Bigger Than Spark In-Memory](http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/02/25/tachyon-caching-is-bigger-than-spark-in-memory/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Next Platformopinion [The Five Stages of NoSQL](http://sookocheff.com/post/opinion/the-five-stages-of-nosql/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Kevin Sookocheffopinion [Redis Performance Dashboard and Autoscaling from RedisGreen](https://dashboard.redisgreen.net/new?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2016a&utm_content=link&utm_term=findout+autoscaling+performance) — Redis auto-scaling and analytics. Backed by support from engineers with years of Redis scaling expertise. RedisGreensponsored [11 Database Version Control Tools](http://www.releasemanagement.org/2016/02/database-version-control-tools/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A look at 4 commercial and 6 open source tools. Release Managementtools [SQLite CREATE TABLE Parser: A Parser for Sqlite CREATE TABLE SQL Statements](https://github.com/marcobambini/sqlite-createtable-parser?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Marco Bambinicode    

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