Issue 130 — November 11, 2016
Featured
Neo4j Raises 36ドルM, Looks To The Future of Graph Databases — CEO Emil Eifrem shares the reasons behind Neo4j’s fundraising round and what’s on the five-year horizon for graph technology.
Neo4j news
Mewbase: A High Performance Streaming Event Store — Allows you to run persistent functions in the engine that listen to raw events and maintain multiple views of the event data. Written in Java and the UK’s largest supermarket’s first open source release.
Tesco code
A List of Over 220 NoSQL Databases — Complete with short summaries. Quite a handy list.
nosql-database.org
In Database Category Race, Candidates Turn Non-Partisan — Is hostility between old/new and SQL/NoSQL database technologies and companies subsiding? Signs point to yes which means good things for the industry.
Andrew Brust opinion
Neo4j + AWS Lambda & API Gateway to Create a Recommendation Engine — Learn how to create a graph-powered document recommendation engine using Neo4j and Amazon Web Services (AWS), particularly Lambda and API Gateway.
Braun Reyes tutorial
A PostgreSQL 9.6 Patch for Instance Level Encryption — The patch automatically stores all the files of a cluster on disk in encrypted format and decrypts blocks as they are read from disk into shared buffers.
Cybertec tools
A Hands-On Experience with Complex SQL — Filmed at Keep Ruby Weird 2016, Craig Kerstiens shows both why SQL is powerful but also why you should be using Postgres in particular. 21 minutes
Craig Kerstiens video
Jobs
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X-Team
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In brief
A Look at HANA, SAP's Newly Updated, Super Strategic Database — Users will get an iTunes-like store for business ‘microservices.’
Fortune news
[Webinar] 5 Things to Monitor Before Black Friday — Join as we discuss 5 aspects of databases companies should be prepared to monitor before Black Friday.
VividCortex news sponsored
How Security Flaws Work: SQL Injection — These mistakes continue to put data at risk.
Peter Bright tutorial
Benjamin Eberlei tutorial
Data Geekery tutorial
Nic Raboy video
SQL Source Control: track each change to your SQL Server database — Get a full history in your source control system. See who made changes, what they did and why. See how.
Red Gate tools sponsored
The Network is the New Storage Bottleneck — "The move from HDDs to SSDs is not slowing, in fact, it is accelerating."
Rob Davis opinion
Citus Data opinion
Sysadmin 4 lyfe opinion