Issue 103 — May 5, 2016
Featured
Going Mainstream: Neo4j and The Future of The Graph Database — The release of the Panama Papers shined a spotlight onto graph databases and Neo4j, one of the most popular graph database systems.
ZDNet news
Gorilla: Facebook's Fast In-Memory Time Series Database — A look at an academic paper digging into a in-memory time series database used by Facebook to rapidly process metrics on the site.
the morning paper story
Redis Labs and Samsung Collaborating on In-Memory Boost — The plan is to accelerate the processing and analysis of large in-memory datasets.
Datanami news
Amazon RDS just got better with enhanced monitoring — Now you can monitor DB performance plus more than 50 new system-level metrics. See it all with Datadog.
Datadog sponsored
Understanding Distributed Databases — A look at the concepts and algorithms involved when building distributed data storage systems.
George Farcasiu tutorial
Hadoop Performance Troubleshooting with Stack Tracing, An Introduction — If I were going to read anything about Hadoop perf tuning, it’d probably be by someone at CERN!
CERN tutorial
rqlite V3: Globally Replicating SQLite — rqlite v3.0 can now replicate SQLite on a global scale. This post shows a global rqlite cluster in action.
Philip O'Toole tools
mongo-query-to-postgres-jsonb: Converts MongoDB Queries to Postgresql Queries for JSONB Fields — Looking to move directly from Mongo over to Postgres? This project could help by automatically converting your queries from Mongo to using JSONB.
Thomas Hansen code
Jobs
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In brief
Apache Kafka Gains Traction Among Enterprise Users — Appetite for stream processing and real-time data access is driving adoption.
Datanami news
Mike Wheatley news
TechCrunch news
Matthias Gelbmann news
Compose news
5 Reasons to Review Your Disaster Recovery Plan Now — Database reliability is a process, not a one-time action. Here are five compelling reasons to review your DR plans now.
EnterpriseDB tutorial sponsored
Patrick Kaeding tutorial
OK I GIVE UP tutorial
Periscope tutorial
Josh Branchaud tutorial
Peter Zaitsev tutorial
Itamar Haber opinion
SQL-on-Apache Hadoop: Choosing The Right Tool for The Right Job — A simple guide to understanding SQL-on-Hadoop choices.
Devadutta Ghat opinion
PT Zenius Education code
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2ndQuadrant.com sponsored