Issue 66 — August 8, 2015
Featured
The World Beyond Batch: Streaming 101 —
An interesting article of modern data-processing concepts related to streaming systems, unbounded data sets, and the future of big data.
O'Reilly Radar
On ORDER BY Optimization —
A look at how sometimes query optimizers get things wrong and how you might get better performance by forcing the optimizer’s hand.
Domas Mituzas
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Don't Test with SQLite When You Use Postgres in Production —
It should go without saying that using two different database systems in different environments is a recipe for trouble, but Michael explains why.
Michael Robellard
RAM Is The New SSD —
Intel’s recent announcement of their new ‘3D XPoint’ RAM technology should mean a new world of loading huge datasets into RAM becomes commonplace.
Java, SQL and jOOQ.
The 5-Minute Guide to Understanding the Significance of Apache Spark —
A look at the differences between Spark and MapReduce, why it’s easier to develop on Spark, and the top five use cases.
Nitin Bandugula
AWS Aurora - It's Showtime for Amazon's New RDS Engine —
Aurora is an easily massively scalable MySQL 5.6-compatible cloud based DBMS that’s part of Amazon’s Web Services.
Nitheesh Poojary
Mockaroo: A Realistic Random Data Generator —
Outputs to CSV, JSON, SQL, and Excel.
Mockaroo tools
In brief
Datanami news
MongoDB news
Oracle Database Developer Choice Awards —
Accepting nominations in the areas of SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle REST, and others through August 15.
Oracle news
TechRepublic news
Eugene Zhulenev tutorial
Mikhail Novikov tutorial
Michael Vogiatzis tutorial
DB Engines opinion
TechRepublic opinion
Christian Felde opinion
SitePoint opinion