SQL Injection Cheat Sheet — A detailed resource to find technical information about the many different variants of SQL injection vulnerabilities. A good reference for both seasoned penetration testers and those just getting started in web app security.

DGraph: Scalable, Distributed, Low Latency, High Perf Graph DB — Easily scale to multiple machines, or datacenters. DGraph’s sharded storage and query processing were designed to minimize the number of network calls. Open source, supports GraphQL as query language, and responds in JSON.

NoSQL Injection in Modern Web Applications — An hour long talk looking at the security of NoSQL databases, what NoSQL ‘injection’ entails, and how to both attack and fix an app.

Open Arms for Open Source: Dell SharePlex and EnterpriseDB Team Up — New Dell SharePlex for EDB Postgres solution provides near-real-time replication from Oracle to the EDB Postgres platform that's on-premises, geographically dispersed, or in the cloud. Liberate your IT spend for strategic initiatives and innovation.

Exploring SQL Server 2016’s Powerful New Features — A practical look at SQL Server’s improved in-memory OLTP and Always Encrypted functionality.

SQLite with a Fine-Toothed Comb — Despite being one of the most heavily tested systems out there, here’s a look at how SQLite’s reliance on C can still result in undefined behavior occurring.

Oracle Attacking Postgres in Russia? — Bruce reports that Oracle has been sending a letter to Russian customers citing a Russian law that may restrict Postgres’ use in government agencies. More here.

(Abusing) Elasticsearch as a Framework — “Most people who know Elasticsearch think of it as a search engine, and they’re probably correct. But we at Crate think about it a bit differently and use it as a framework.”

Streaming SQL with PipelineDB [PDF] — PipelineDB is a database based off of Postgres but that adds continuous, streaming SQL query functionality.

Field Definitions In Elasticsearch — Elasticsearch isn’t just for storing text documents, it can deal with arrays, nested datatypes, geo-location information, and more.