Issue 110 — June 23, 2016
Featured
ElasticSearch At Petabyte Scale on AWS — An interesting glimpse into the practicalities behind managing a fleet of ElasticSearch clusters, some topping over a petabyte of storage.
Jamie Alquiza story
NoSQL Data Stores in Research and Practice — A very extensive slidedeck covering NoSQL foundations, motivations for its use, plus NoSQL tools and database engines themselves.
Felix Gessert
Bleve: A Full Text Search Database in Go — Bleve is an open-source full-text search database that focuses on performance low memory use. It supports numerous KV stores for its backend.
Srdjan Marinovic tools
Working With View Models in RavenDB — Modern app developers often work with conglomerations of data cobbled together to display a UI page. In this article, we'll look at different ways to work with view models in RavenDB, and offer practical advice on when to use each approach.
RavenDB sponsored
Aleph: A Redshift Data Analysis App — Makes it easy for users to write SQL (complete with schema autocompletion) and get results from Redshift datasets.
Andrew Xue tools
ArangoDB 3.0 Released — ArangoDB is a multi-model DB supporting three major NoSQL data models out of the box. It has reached a major milestone with version 3 with improved clustering and 5x performance.
ArangoDB tools
Jobs
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Hired.com
In brief
Postgresql.org news
SQL Server Now Running on Linux, in a Docker Container — "As of today, private preview participants can get SQL Server on Linux on Ubuntu – as a Docker image."
Mark Russinovich news
How deadlines should be used in software engineering — Keen IO's co-founder and chief product officer, Ryan Spraetz walks us through how he uses deadlines in engineering to build an event-database that processes trillions of events daily.
Keen IO tutorial sponsored
Wern Ancheta tutorial
Tarun Sapra tutorial
Philipe Fatio tutorial
We're Happy with SQLite & Not Urgently Interested in A Fancier DBMS — It is a local, single user app, however.
Beets opinion
On Why RavenDB Is Written in C# — RavenDB is an open source .NET database.
Ayende Rahien opinion
DJ Walker-Morgan opinion
Datanami opinion
See inside your Redis database. New memory mapping from RedisGreen — RedisGreen's new memory map models your database, helping you track down problems and gain new insights.
RedisGreen tools sponsored
Palaniappan Ponniah tools
Usman Masood code
James Edwards code