Issue 119 — August 26, 2016
Featured
Baidu Takes FPGA Approach to Accelerating SQL at Scale — Baidu sits on over an exabyte of data and processes around 100 petabytes per day so creative approaches to optimizing data intensive jobs are required.
Nicole Hemsoth story
Forrester's Crowded NoSQL Wave Shows Abundant Options — A high level, commercial look at the increasingly crowded NoSQL database market, based on an interesting report by Forrester.
Alex Woodie news
Building a Real-Time Recommendation Engine — Learn how to build a real-time recommendation engine powered by social, similarity and cluster factors, all leveraging the power of advanced data science.
Nicole White tutorial
Join us at DataLayer — Hear speakers from GitHub, Adobe, ZenDesk many others as they discuss how their teams are optimizing the data layer to scale modern web and mobile apps. Reserve your seat now for this one day event on Sept. 28 in Seattle.
Compose/DataLayer sponsored
The Road to CouchDB 2.0 Series — A new major release for the CouchDB document database is on the way. This roundup includes numerous posts about what’s coming and when.
CouchDB news
VanillaDB: A Framework for Extensible Database System Prototypes — A collection of simple, open source components designed to lower the barrier for prototyping new DB systems or learning DB internals.
VanillaDB tools
ddldump: Dump A Clean Version of Your Tables' DDLs for Versioning — Dump and version the schemas of your tables, while cleaning out things that would make it hard to version and check for differences.
Percolate tools
What Datatype Should You Use to Represent Time in MySQL? — Whenever you need to save datetime data, a question arises about what MySQL type to use. Do you go with a native MySQL DATE type or use an INT field to store date and time info as a plain number?
Francisco Claria tutorial
Jobs
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In brief
Open-Source Religion Won't Feed MariaDB — "MySQL daddy Monty Widenius dismisses claims the MariaDB fork is veering away from open source."
Alexander J Martin news
Bullish Forecast for Hadoop Despite Spark Hype — 63% annual growth is expected for the Hadoop market over the next 5 years.
EnterpriseTech news
Periscope tutorial
A Database Model to Manage Appointments and Organize Schedules — The latest in Vertabelo’s database modelling series.
Emil Drkušić tutorial
Using Apache Spark to Analyze Large Neuroimaging Datasets — Very complex but great to see applications like this.
Sergul Aydore and Syed Ashrafulla tutorial
Installing DreamFactory from source on Ubuntu 14.0.4 LTS — DreamFactory auto-generates a rich API platform from any database. Here’s a quick tutorial for a common Linux flavor.
DreamFactory tutorial sponsored
Hadoop Deployment Cheat Sheet — Insider tips and tricks for successfully deploying Hadoop.
Jethro tutorial
Ryan Nienhuis tutorial
Omar Bohsali tutorial
Wissam Jarjoui story
Oren Eini story
Datanami story
Chris Travers opinion
Have you got SQL fingers? — Try SQL Prompt and you’ll be able to write, refactor, and reformat SQL effortlessly in SSMS and Visual Studio. Find out more.
sqlprompt tools sponsored
Bojack: A Non-Reliable In-Memory Key-Value Store for Crystal — Crystal is a compiled language with Ruby-like syntax.
Marcelo Boeira code
Charlie Wolf code