Issue 191 — February 16, 2018
Scylla Eyes Cassandra's NoSQL Workloads — Scylla is an Apache Cassandra-compatible NoSQL database focused on performance, efficiency, and not being restricted to the JVM. Here’s the full story.
Datanami news
A Modern NoSQL Performance Benchmark — The latest in a series of benchmarks performed by ArangoDB on MongoDB, PostgreSQL, OrientDB, Neo4j and its own database. They’ve shared all their tools and methodology to try and keep it fair.
Claudius Weinberger (ArangoDB) opinion
SelectStar: One Monitoring Solution to Cover All Your (Data)bases — SelectStar monitors more than 95% of in-production databases and their underlying heterogenous infrastructures so you can use a single console to monitor, manage, and improve performance. It’s the only database monitoring tool you’ll need.
SelectStar sponsored
MongoDB Gets Support for Multi-Document ACID Transactions — Support for ACID transactions will come with MongoDB 4.0, due this summer.
Frederic Lardinois news
Which Programming Language Is Best for Big Data? — Python is huge in data science exploration, R with the statisticians, SAS with business analysts, but there are many other choices.
Datanami opinion
Why We’re Excited About MySQL 8 — Percona’s Peter Zaitsev covers new features like the MySQL Data Dictionary, faster schema introspection, invisible indexes, self optimization, and improved UTF8 support.
Peter Zaitsev video
Time-Series Leader InfluxData Raises More Cash — 35ドルM to be precise, reflecting growing demand for time-series databases.
Datanami news
Bitcoin in BigQuery: Blockchain Analytics on Public Data — Access the Bitcoin blockchain via a new public Google BigQuery dataset.
Google Cloud Platform news
Microsoft news
Steve Harrington news
EDB Managed DBaaS sponsored
Tristan Le Guillou and Yacine Benabderrahmane tutorial
Stephan Brauer tutorial
A Dating App Data Model — Vertabelo is back with their latest data modelling post.
Emil Drkušić tutorial
Thomas LaRock tutorial
Piotr Majcher story
Turbocharging MySQL with Vitess — Vitess is a clustering system for horizontally scaling MySQL.
Sugu Sougoumarane video
Thomas Neumann opinion
Studio 3T sponsored
Marlon Ribunal tools