Issue 137 — January 13, 2017
Featured
Extortionists Wipe Thousands of Databases — This week’s biggest database story has been thousands of insecure MongoDB servers being held ransom by hackers.
Krebs on Security news
The Many Different Ways to JOIN Tables in SQL — Perhaps the most powerful SQL feature is the JOIN operation, and this ‘probably incomplete comprehensive guide’ looks at it in depth from cross joins to partitioned outer joins and all in between.
JavaOOQ tutorial
Cachelot: Memcached-Compatible Caching Library and Server — An ‘LRU cache that works at the speed of light’ that uses a fixed pre-allocated block of memory.
cachelot.io code
[Free Tool] Network Analyzer for MySQL — VividCortex’s network traffic analyzer tool for MySQL is an easy-to-use way to gain insight into your server’s activity. Built for MySQL servers running on Linux operating systems, it is a non-intrusive, safe way to understand your query workload.
VividCortex sponsored
The Ransoming of Elasticsearch — A data ransoming group has attacked vulnerable clusters of Elasticsearch servers they’ve found on cloud providers.
Ben Hundley news
5 Hadoop Trends to Watch in 2017 — Where will the distributed computing system go in 2017? Here are five macro trends impacting Hadoop to keep an eye out this year.
Datanami news
Benchmarking Redmine on MySQL with RocksDB and InnoDB Storage — RocksDB is a persistent key-value store, built by Facebook, that can be used as a storage engine in MySQL.
Jetware opinion
In brief
Salvatore Sanfilippo news
Datanami news
The Lead Developer 1-day conference for tech leads. 21 Feb, New York. — High-level sessions on growing an engineering organization with effective DevOps, going serverless and more.
White October Events news sponsored
Google Lauds Outside Influence on Apache Beam — Beam is an open source, unified model and set of language-specific SDKs for defining and executing data processing workflows.
Datanami news
Clinton Gormley news
Adam Derewecki tutorial
MongoDB Security Best Practices — A response to this week’s attacks with tips.
MongoDB tutorial
RapidLoop tutorial
Tim Kadlec opinion
Anastasia Raspopina opinion
DreamFactory REST API platform for databases — Develop apps faster. DreamFactory automatically turns any database into a REST API platform in minutes.
DreamFactory tools sponsored
Vero Analytics, Inc tools
A Public, Live Instance of RavenDB 4.0 to Play With — RavenDB is an open source NoSQL database for .NET.
Ayende Rahien tools
lewuathe.com code