Issue 172 — September 15, 2017
The Weight of Relational Databases: Time for Multi-Model? — A quick thought piece on the increasing role for polyglotism in database systems as needs become more complex.
Luca Olivari tutorial
Postgres's Workings in One Picture — An interesting ‘infographic’ style image showing the various components of Postgres and how they stack together.
Alexey Lesovsky tutorial
Data Sheet: Database Performance Monitoring — VividCortex is the best way to improve your database performance, efficiency, and uptime.
VividCortex sponsored
Injecting a Chess Engine into Amazon Redshift — Redshift is an SQL-based database with a Postgres-style frontend and curiously you can integrate compiled C code with it as in this extensive example.
Michael Burge story
Database Systems Reading List — Links to a variety of 38 categorized papers on database management systems topics.
Joy Arulraj code
Catalin Cimpanu news
A Sports School Data Model — The latest in Vertabelo’s relational data modelling series.
Vertabelo tutorial
Datanami tutorial
Parth Modi tutorial
Get an intro to MongoDB with our Accelerator Kit — For a limited time, we're making our best resources for learning MongoDB available for free & on demand.
MONGODB sponsored
Henry Hu story
Terry McCann video
Chris Chinchilla
The Ultimate Guide to Oracle Indexes: Improve Your SQL Skills — Learn all about index types, index scans, when to use each index type, and more in this article.
Database Star sponsored
Kevin Burke tools
Citus 7: Transactions, Framework Integration, and Postgres 10 — Citus extends Postgres with extra sharding features and now has Postgres 10 support.
citusdata tools