Issue 132 — December 2, 2016
Featured
Amazon Athena: Serverless Interactive Query Service — A new serverless, interactive query service on AWS that makes it easy to analyze data stored on S3 using standard SQL.
Amazon Web Services tools
Announcing the General Availability of MongoDB 3.4 — 3.4 adds a new aggregation pipeline stage for recursive lookups on graph queries, support for the decimal data type, faceted navigation support, and more. Release notes here.
MongoDB news
Amazon Adds Postgres Compatibility to Aurora — Aurora began life as a MySQL-compatible high performance cloud database - now it’s compatible with Postgres.
Amazon news
Estimating CPU Per Query With Weighted Linear Regression — It's sometimes impossible to answer what's consuming resources like CPU, IO, & memory in a complex software. This ebook explains how a specialization of ordinary linear regression gives useful answers to seemingly unsolvable database questions.
VividCortex sponsored
ToroDB: Open Source NoSQL Database That Runs On Top of A RDBMS — Speaks the MongoDB wire protocol but stores data in an ACID database. There’s also Stampede which can replicate data real time from MongoDB to an SQL database for BI use.
ToroDB code
Tera: A High-Perf Distributed NoSQL Database — A project from Baidu billed as ‘an Internet-scale database’ inspired by Google’s BigTable and designed for real-time applications working at up to petabyte scale.
Baidu code
ReasonDB: A Native Syncing Object Database with An SQL Like Syntax — A native JavaScript auto-synchronizing object database with a SQL like syntax and persistence engines for both the browser and Node.
Simon Y. Blackwell code
CHAR(16) Conference: A Data Scalability Event in NYC (Dec 6) — Showcasing the significant developments that leading PostgreSQL engineering teams have made in the areas of clustering, high availability and replication. Use code DBW50 for 50ドル off your ticket price.
Char Conference news
Jobs
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Hired
In brief
AWS Now Offering Trucks to Move Your Data to Its Cloud — For working at petabyte and exabyte scales.
VentureBeat news
JetBrains news
Datanami news
Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Are Now HIPAA-Eligible Services — Great news if you’re in the US healthcare industry.
Amazon Web Services news
Database monitoring for any stack, at any scale — Datadog integrates with 150+ infrastructure technologies, including MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, and Amazon RDS.
Datadog sponsored
A Database Model for Action Games — Vertabelo are back with one of their great database modelling articles.
vertabelo tutorial
How to Start Building An App using SQL Server — Choose your language and operating system and get custom instructions.
Microsoft tutorial
Kaloyan Kosev tutorial
Denis Gobo tutorial
Citus Data tutorial
Get Started with SQL Server with Node on macOS, Linux or Windows — A set of simple walkthroughs from Microsoft.
Microsoft tutorial
CockroachDB story
How to Make Your Database 200x Faster Without Having to Pay More? — A look at producing faster ‘almost perfect’ answers in analytics/BI scenarios.
High Scalability story
Sticker Mule tools
Database-as-a-Service — Quickly and easily deploy your database with Compose. Free for 30 days.
Compose tools sponsored
appbase tools
JSON-Splora: GUI for Editing, Visualizing, and Manipulating JSON Data — Built with Electron and Node.
Wells Johnston code
Timothee Tosi code