Issue 164 — July 21, 2017
Redis 4.0 GA Released — The popular data structure server takes a step forward with several key improvements including a new replication engine and official support for modules.
Salvatore Sanfilippo tools
How Microsoft Brought SQL Server To Linux — Frederic Lardinois talks to Rohan Kumar, general manager of Microsoft’s Database Systems group, to learn how his team "managed to bring an extremely complex piece of software like SQL Server to Linux".
TechCrunch story
A Real-Time Database Survey: The Architecture of Meteor, RethinkDB, Parse & Firebase — A comprehensive overview of the current state of push-oriented databases.
Baqend Blog opinion
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Simple Programmer sponsored
Cosette: An Automated SQL 'Solver' — An automated prover for checking equivalences of SQL queries. Repo here.
University of Washington tools
BayesLite: BayesDB on SQLite for Probability Querying — A Bayesian database table for querying the probable implications of data as easily as SQL databases query the data itself.
MIT Probabilistic Computing Project code
PostgreSQL 10 Beta 2 Released — Postgres 10 is shaping up to be a great release, and the latest beta version is now available.
PostgreSQL news
Microsoft news
Attend Google Developer Days — Europe 2017 in Krakow, Poland — Join us at #GDDEurope, where we will be covering the latest developer updates and best practices.
Google, Inc. sponsored
The New Stack news
ArangoDB news
Using ReBloom, A Bloom Filter Datatype for Redis — A look at how Bloom filters work and how to use them in Redis.
Mark Nunberg tutorial
Richard Schneeman tutorial
Sébastien Saunier tutorial
George Leopold news
MySQL 8.0.2: Introducing Window Functions — SQL window functions, or analytic functions as they are also sometimes called, are now available in 8.0.2.
Dag Wanvik news
Susan Hall tutorial
Nemil Dalal opinion
Database Performance Monitoring Buyer’s Guide — This guide is designed to aid when evaluating database monitoring solutions for your unique environment.
VividCortex sponsored
Sruthi Poddutur tutorial
Vedis: An Embeddable Redis-Inspired Datastore Engine — Imagine Redis without the networking layer and as a C library.
Symisc Systems code