Issue 167 — August 11, 2017
TimescaleDB: An Open-Source Time-Series SQL Database — Optimized for fast ingest, complex queries, and scalability, Timescale is based around PostgreSQL.
Timescale tools
LinkedIn's Strategy for Migrating to Its Own Database — LinkedIn’s strategy for migrating one of their internal services (Babylonia) from using Oracle to Espresso, LinkedIn’s own NoSQL database system.
David Max story
M202: MongoDB for DBAs - A Free Online Course — After completing this course, you should have a good understanding of how to administer a MongoDB installation in production.
MONGODB sponsored
Exploring Presto and Zeppelin for Fast Data Analytics and Visualization — How WalMart use SQL query engine Presto and a look at its performance in some common use cases.
Sandeep Malik tutorial
Working with AWS DynamoDB — "The fully managed NoSQL database service DynamoDB is good if you don’t need to worry about scaling and handling large amounts of data."
Parth Modi tutorial
Principles of Sharding for Relational Databases — Opinions on sharding range from "it saved us" to "it was the worst mistake we made. This post looks at the key factors that play into sharding and how you should approach whether it’s right for you.
citusdata story
Did Google Send the Big Data Industry on a 10 Year Head Fake? — Even in 2010 Google was recognizing the limits of non-relational systems, and began to course correct seven years ago.
Gary Orenstein opinion
MongoDB Performance Issues: Fact or Fiction — A look at some of MongoDB’s common performance issues and where things sit now with the latest version, 3.4.6.
Ken W. Alger opinion
A Live Demo With a VividCortex Engineer — Join a live demo with a VividCortex engineer to show how the VividCortex solution can eliminate your most critical visibility gaps.
VividCortex sponsored
postgresql.org news
CouchDB news
Real-Time MySQL Performance Monitoring — Using MySQL monitoring tool Monyog to measure key metrics.
Rob Gravelle tutorial
Mary Branscombe story
Alex Woodie story
Cassandra vs. MongoDB — Considering the differences between Cassandra vs. MongoDB as the data store for your next project.
scalegrid.io opinion sponsored
TimescaleDB vs. Postgres for Time-Series Work — The first in a series of performance benchmarks comparing TimescaleDB to other databases for storing and analyzing time-series data.
Rob Kiefer opinion
Hacker News opinion
Andrew Kane tools
Kylie Monroe tools