Issue 154 — May 12, 2017
Featured
Microsoft Unveils Azure Cosmos DB, A New Multi-Model DB — An Azure-based globally-distributed multi-model database built for low latency, elastic scalability, and high availability.
Microsoft tools
MapD Open Sources Its GPU-Powered Database — Mark Litwintschik has also written a handy guide to compiling MapD from source.
MapD Blog story
RediSQL: A Redis Module That Embeds SQLite — Provides a way to get a SQLite server on the cheap and it can serve many 10,000s of queries per second.
RedBeardLab tools
Manifold is your hub for amazing developer services — Why waste time managing your own database? Sign Up for Manifold and manage all your services with a single account. We have awesome partners like JawsDB and RedisGreen — so you can get started today with Redis, Postgres, MySQL and even MariaDB.
Manifold sponsored
CockroachDB 1.0: A Production-Ready Go-Based SQL Database — One of the "NewSQL" generation of databases, CockroachDB is an open source, distributed SQL database designed for high availability.
Spencer Kimball tools
Microsoft Launches Azure Database for MySQL and Postgres — While Cosmos DB (above) is Microsoft’s big database news of the week, most developers will find their MySQL and PostgreSQL offerings of more immediate use.
TechCrunch news
What Are Graph Databases and Why Should We Care? — This hour long talk goes quite deep on understanding the graph database ecosystem from stores such as Neo4j and OrientDB to processing frameworks like GraphX.
Dave Bechberger video
A Dive Into Spatial Search Algorithms — The art of searching through millions of points in an instant.
Vladimir Agafonkin tutorial
Detecting Abuse at Scale with Locality Sensitive Hashing — How Uber uses Locality Sensitive Hashing on Apache Spark to reliably detect fraudulent trips at scale.
Uber Engineering story
Optimizing Memcached Efficiency at Quora — Quora uses memcached heavily to speed up operations and has just released a new tool called mcinspector for analyzing its memory use.
Siyuan Fu story
In brief
European Commission news
Bert Wagner tutorial
How can you help your team write better, shareable SQL faster? — Learn more with our free video tips showing how SQL Prompt lets you write, refactor, and share SQL.
Red Gate sponsored
Robert Sheldon tutorial
citusdata tutorial
Jay Gordon tutorial
Ben Ubois tutorial
Alex Handy story
Jordan Husney and Matt Krick story
Migrate your deployment from mLab or Compose and get 100ドル in credit — With MongoDB Atlas' Live Import utility, you can migrate your entire deployment with no downtime.
MONGODB sponsored
Nitrite: An Embedded NoSQL Database for Java and Android — An open-source NoSQL embedded document database with a MongoDB-like API.
Anindya Chatterjee tools
TiDB Brings Distributed Scalability to SQL — TiDB supports the MySQL protocol, making it easy to adopt.
Susan Hall tools