Issue 128 — October 28, 2016
Featured
Memory is the Next Platform — Phase change memory, memristors, resistive RAM, 3D XPoint, and others are on the research horizon and memory is having an impact on computation and data handling generally.
Nicole Hemsoth opinion
Is Spinning Disk Going Extinct? Experts Weigh In — As fast SSDs get cheaper and tape drives get bigger, the sweet spot where spinning HDDs make sense gets smaller.
Datanami opinion
AgilData Zero: Zero-Knowledge Encryption for MySQL — An open source project (currently ‘proof of concept’) for protecting MySQL databases from breaches.
AgilData tools
Heap tracks everything users do in your app then gives you SQL access to it — Heap is like Google Analytics, except it works automatically: It auto-records all events users take in your web or iOS app. You can then graph users' behavior, visualize their funnels, and drill into what leads to high conversions.
Heap Analytics sponsored
15 Awesome Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Google BigQuery — All data is encrypted both at rest and in transit by deafult, it has efficient concurrency, it’s serverless and fully managed, supports public datasets, and more.
Tino Tereshko opinion
Fact or Fiction: Google BigQuery Outperforms Amazon Redshift as an Enterprise Data Warehouse? — Amazon hits back at benchmarks presented by Google that portrayed BigQuery as being faster than Redshift and runs some benchmarks of their own.
Randall Hunt opinion
An Advanced Elasticsearch Architecture for High-Volume Reindexing — "I’ve found a new and funny way to play with Elasticsearch to reindex a production cluster without disturbing our clients."
Fred de Villamil tutorial
Calling All Cabs: A Database Model for a Taxi Service — The latest in a long line of practical database modelling articles from Vertabelo, this time looking at how to model a taxi service.
Vertabelo tutorial
Jobs
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In brief
Logical Clocks news
RavenDB 3.5 RTM Released — RavenDB is an open source NoSQL database for .NET.
ayende.com news
Datanami news
firebirdnews.org news
Datanami news
Upload Files From Anywhere — The API for file uploads. Integrate Filestack in 2 lines of code.
filestack sponsored
Fuzzy Search with MongoDB and Python — A typo-robust and flexible search of names and short phrases.
Zakhar Shapurau tutorial
Scott Mead tutorial
Martin Falkus story
A Comparison of Time Series Databases and Netsil’s Use of Druid — Brief analysis comparing Cassandra, Druid, Riak-TS, InfluxDB, OpenTSDB, Prometheus and Elasticsearch.
Netsil Inc. story
Benchmarking Go's Redis Server Libraries — Comparing Redis, Redcon & Redeo libraries.
Simon Guindon opinion
See what your users see — Capture everything, and we mean everything (including the full DOM and console logs), about your customer experience with one easy-to-install script. Try it free.
fullstory sponsored
Chris Aumann tools
Romain Baugue tools