Issue 121 — September 9, 2016
Featured
InfluxDB 1.0 GA Released: A Retrospective and What’s Next — InfluxDB is an open source time series database with no external dependencies that’s useful for recording metrics, events, and performing analytics.
Paul Dix news
Dumb Tricks to Save Database Space — Don’t store UUIDs as text, use smaller number types, use enums, avoid overusing JSON, and more.
Kevin Burke tutorial
Apache Hadoop 3.0 Alpha 1 Released — The first in a series of planned alphas and betas. This isn’t ready for production use.
Apache Foundation news
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Compose | DataLayer sponsored
ScyllaDB Revamps NoSQL Database in 1.3 Release — The drop-in replacement for Apache Cassandra boasts sub 1 millisecond 99% latency, 10x throughput of Cassandra, self-tuning, and more.
Mike Wheatley news
Code Generation: The Inner Sanctum of Database Performance — Drew Paroski, architect and engineering manager at MemSQL, reflects on how human readable SQL queries are compiled to native code and what benefits this brings.
High Scalability story
Yahoo Open-Sourcing Pulsar, Pub-Sub Messaging at Scale — Pulsar is a highly scalable, low latency pub-sub messaging system running on commodity hardware. It seems to fill a similar niche to Apache Kafka.
Yahoo Engineering news
Elasticsearch, The Server — Reflections how Elasticsearch has evolved into a powerful search and analytics engine and how embedded Elasticsearch will no longer be supported.
Clinton Gormley story
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In brief
Improved Automatic Tuning Boosts Azure SQL Database Performance — Azure SQL will ‘learn and adapt’ to fit applications and self-optimize its settings for better performance.
Vladimir Ivanovic news
Datanami news
PostgreSQL 9.6 RC 1 Released — The first release candidate of Postgres 9.6 is here, which means we’re not far away from the full release. Help the community out by giving it a try.
postgresql.org news
DreamFactory 2.3 released, includes PHP 7, Cassandra, Redis — This release includes major enhancements, including PHP 7, new APIs for Cassandra, Redis, and Memcached, and queued event scripts.
DreamFactory sponsored
Matthew Rathbone tutorial
Neil Alex tutorial
Kamil Choudhury tutorial
Periscope tutorial
Fabian Pascal tutorial
Querying Non-Existent MongoDB Fields — A look at a subtle potential vulnerability.
Pete Corey story
FaRM: A Design for 'Fast Remote Memory' — A high level overview of a paper describing an in-memory distributed computing platform.
Carlos Galdino story
Wayne Carter opinion
Steven Acreman opinion
How can you help your team write better, shareable SQL faster? — Learn more with our free video tips showing how SQL Prompt lets you write, refactor, and share SQL.
Red Gate tools sponsored
Apache Foundation tools
Citus Data code