Issue 157 — June 2, 2017
A Comparison of Advanced, Modern Cloud Databases — A non-exhaustive primer of modern cloud database solutions like Aurora, Cosmos, and Spanner.
Brandur Leach opinion
View Counting at Reddit with Cassandra and Redis — Reddit is so popular that even counting the number of views posts get provides an interesting technical challenge, as explained here.
Upvoted story
Monitoring Databases: A Product Comparison — Percona’s Manjot Singh reviews five of the top database monitoring solutions on the market. Get his breakdown in this blog.
SelectStar sponsored
Amazon RDS Now Supports Stopping and Starting of DB Instances — Makes things easier and more affordable in development and test situations.
Amazon Web Services news
Morgan Tocker news
Tutorials and Stories
How to Build a Non-Volatile Memory DBMS — Slides, a paper, and a video on building a new DBMS given the changes to hardware landscape due to non-volatile memory.
Joy Arulraj tutorial
How Pandora Uses Kafka — Kafka and related technologies have proven ‘critical to Pandora’s success’ in serving their 80 million active users.
Alex Woodie story
JOOQ tutorial
Patrick Ackerman tutorial
Veer Abheek Singh Manhas tutorial
Mike Frank tutorial
Noriyoshi Shinoda tutorial
Breaking the WiredTiger Logjam: The Write-Ahead Log — Learn how the WiredTiger write-ahead log orchestrates many threads writing to a single buffer without locking.
MongoDB sponsored
What to Expect When You’re Expecting Data: 4 Valuable Lessons Learned — Lessons include knowing the importance of driver selection, that query indexing is critical to smooth operations, and that DBaaS is valuable for startups.
Steve Pescatore opinion
Robert Reeves opinion
Tools and Code
AgensGraph: A Multi-Model Graph Database — A multi-model graph database, built on top of Postgres, for modern complex data environments which supports relational and graph data models at the same time.
Bitnine Global, Inc. tools
20ドル Free Credit on a new account. — Linux cloud hosting starting at 1GB of RAM for 5ドル/mo. Use promo code DB20 for 20ドル credit
linode sponsored
Apache Software Foundation tools
PGObserver: A Postgres Monitoring Tool — An open source tool to help you monitor a Postgres database and get insights on stored procedures, IO stats, index usage, and more.
Zalando tools