Issue 143 — February 24, 2017
Featured
Google Spanner Inspires CockroachDB To Outrun It — In a database market ripe for change, Cockroach has the potential to be Yahoo’s Hadoop and HDFS to Google’s MapReduce and Google File System.
Timothy Prickett Morgan opinion
Data Opportunities Slipping Through the Cracks — Most companies still struggle to process and analyze the huge amounts of data they have access to, making the database industry ripe for new entrants and new solutions.
Datanami opinion
Redis on the Raspberry Pi: Adventures in Unaligned Lands — The creator of Redis talks about how he sees Redis working on the Raspberry Pi and how he’s made them work better together in rich technical detail.
Salvatore Sanfilippo story
Practical Scalability Analysis with the Universal Scalability Law — This eBook introduces scalability analysis using Dr. Gunther’s Universal Scalability Law, which models & predicts how systems perform, & illustrates deep truths about scalability. This book outlines why systems fail to scale well & what to do about it.
VividCortex sponsored
Processing a 'Trillion Rows' Per Second on a Single Machine.. Or Not — This blog post describes our experience debugging a failing test case caused by a cross join query running "too fast."
Reynold Xin, Ala Luszczak and Bogdan Raducanu story
Redash: Easily Visualize and Share Data from Any Source — An open source alternative to traditional BI suites built up of a sandbox-style environment for SQL queries and a dashboard/visualization tool.
Arik Fraimovich tools
How PostgreSQL Is Tested — Want to learn how databases get tested and, in particular, Postgres? This talk from PGConf US digs in to the testing processes the Postgres project uses.
Joshua Drake video
How to Plan and Run Events: An Event Management Data Model — The latest in Vertabelo’s relational data modelling series.
Vertabelo tutorial
In brief
Datanami news
Forrester: Why Application Monitoring Needs Better Database Monitoring — Hear expert tips on how to fill the gap between APM and the rapidly changing data layer.
SelectStar sponsored
Big Data University
Morgan Tocker tutorial
Upgrading your MySQL Server Farm — A thorough look at what’s involved in upgrading a set of MySQL servers.
Geir Hoydalsvik tutorial
Real Time Delivery Updates with Slack, MongoDB Atlas & Tailable Cursors — Creating a custom Slack chat bot using Node.js, MongoDB Atlas, and MongoDB Compass.
Nick Parsons tutorial
John O'Connor tutorial
Travis Mick tutorial
Raphael Ht tutorial
Get Instant REST APIs for Your Database — DreamFactory turns your database into a comprehensive REST API. Free and open source, try it now.
DreamFactory sponsored
The MongoDB Engineering Journal story
Joseph Albahari opinion
Neo4j vs Dgraph Benchmarks — Interesting results though take note the source is Dgraph themselves.
Pawan Rawal opinion
Fernando Ipar tools
Rafael Thofehrn Castro tools
A SQLite3 Persistence Layer for Gun — Gun is a decentralized, ‘offline first’ JavaScript graph database.
github.com code