Microsoft Announces SQL Server for Linux — The software giant takes another step towards Linux by announcing the availability of its flagship database server, SQL Server, on Linux in 2017.

A Database Model for Simple Board Games — Vertabelo is back with another one of their great database design articles. This time, they look at how to very generically represent board game moves and players.

KairosDB: A Fast Time-Series Database on Cassandra — A fast distributed scalable time series database written on top of Apache Cassandra.

Government Open Source Mandates Drive Postgres Adoption Worldwide — Commercial DBMSs with their high license and maintenance costs and vendor lock-in make 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.

SQL JOIN or EXISTS? Chances Are, You’re Doing it Wrong — “A lot of developers get the distinction between JOIN and SEMI-JOIN wrong. Let me explain..”

700 SQL Queries per Second in Apache Spark with FiloDB — Apache Spark is increasingly thought of as the new ‘jack-of-all-trades’ distributed platform for big data crunching. This post looks at using it for low-latency, high concurrency reporting type applications.

PipelineDB 0.9 Released with Postgres 9.5 Compatibility — Pipeline is an open-source relational database that runs SQL queries continuously on streams.

ActorDB: The Ideal Datastore for Microservices — It’s a highly distributed SQL database with linear scalability.

With SQL Server 2016, Microsoft Focuses On Speed and Security — SQL Server 2016 promises to be significantly faster than 2014, both at a baseline level and potentially 100x faster when you use the new in-memory columnstores.