Issue 111 — July 1, 2016
Featured
Analyzing the Graph of Thrones with Neo4j — A fun walk through a practical use for graph databases based around interactions in a book that led to the TV show, Game of Thrones.
William Lyon tutorial
Before You Start Drawing: Database Modeling Tips — A look at the process behind whether to build a new database, database modelling, and how to bring a new database together.
Emil Drkušić tutorial
MIT and EnterpriseDB Launch ‘Vision Talks’ Executive Roundtable Series — MIT Technology Review and EnterpriseDB (EDB) collaborated to launch an international ‘Vision Talks’ executive roundtable series to explore how open source software is helping organizations transform their infrastructures to meet today’s data-driven demands.
EnterpriseDB sponsored
MongoDB Launches Atlas, Its New Database-as-a-Service — MongoDB, the company behind the eponymous open source database, has launched Atlas, a pay-as-you-go cloud based database-as-a-service. AWS only for now but with Azure and Google Cloud support coming.
TechCrunch news
A Practical Introduction to RethinkDB — A look at how to work with RethinkDB , a document-based NoSQL database, from its installation to developing a simple application in Node.js to show off its real-time capabilities.
Esteban Herrera tutorial
Couchbase Server 4.5 Released — A general purpose document-oriented NoSQL database for Web, mobile and IoT applications. 4.5 improves on the tooling behind N1QL, a SQL dialect used by Couchbase.
Couchbase news
Jobs
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Hired.com
In brief
PostgreSQL 9.6 Beta 2 Released — The final 9.6 release is expected late in the year.
Postgresql.org news
George Leopold news
On-demand Webinar: Turbocharge Your SQL Queries In-Memory with Apache® IgniteTM — Learn how to boost performance 1,000X and scale to over 1 billion transactions per second with your SQL-based applications.
GridGain In-Memory Data Fabric sponsored
Apache Kudu in 5 Minutes — Kudu is a storage layer for Hadoop enabling ‘fast analytics on fast data’.
Lewis Gavin tutorial
Feature Analysis with Mean-Time-Between-Usage Calculation in SQL — The latest in a long line of advanced SQL examples from Periscope.
Periscope tutorial
Ben Bromhead tutorial
Ayende Rahien tutorial
Adam Vanderbush tutorial
Soham Kamani tutorial
Ronak Nathani tutorial
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
Datanami opinion
RethinkDB opinion
Why Is Oracle Losing Ground? — Price and contracts seem to be the biggest factors here.
Reddit opinion
Solr vs Elasticsearch for Relevancy: Battle of the Query DSLs — In short, it’s a tie.
Doug Turnbull opinion
Fabian Pascal opinion
Huy Nguyen opinion
Yogesh Mahajan opinion
Datanami story