DB Weekly Issue 78: November 6, 2015

A List of Over 200 NoSQL Databases — Complete with short summaries. Quite a handy list.

Creating a Database Model for A Messaging System — It’s always great to see how a database professional approaches the development of a data model - this time, for a notification/message system.

With 3.2, MongoDB Extends to New Users, Adds Enterprise Features — The latest version of MongoDB features graphical tools, business intelligence connectors and performance monitoring integrations designed to make data in the NoSQL database accessible to business analysts, data scientists, executives and other users.

Redis Performance Dashboard and Autoscaling from RedisGreen — Ever wonder what your Redis server was actually doing? Find out with RedisGreen's dashboard and monitoring tools.

Elasticsearch 2.0.0 GA Released — The popular Lucene based search server (which essentially operates as a document database of sorts) gets a major upgrade with pipeline aggregations and hardened security.

SQL Server 2016 Gets An R (language) Rating — SQL Server’s next on-prem version will have built-in support for analytics written in the R language, via Microsoft’s acquisition of Revolution Analytics, makers of a popular implementation of R.

Oracle Hardwires Encryption and SQL Hastening Algorithms Into Sparc M7 Silicon — Oracle execs used the final keynote of this week’s OpenWorld to praise their Sparc M7 processor’s ability to accelerate encryption and some SQL queries in hardware.

A Few Things About Redis Security — Redis’s creator reflects on security criticisms Redis has received and how the subtly balance against usability issues.

Interesting Changes in MySQL 5.7 — It gains JSON support, spatial data types in InnoDB, and better handling of Asian languages, amongst other things.

Data Vault 2.0 Modeling Basics — A look at the differences between and process involved in going from an OLTP model to a Data Vault model of data storage.

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OrientDB Climbs the DB-Engines Ranking by 22 Positions in a Year — OrientDB, a multi-model graph + document database, is now in the top 50 at the #46 position.

How CenterEdge Went From Black Friday Blues to Cloud Scale with Couchbase — The latest in a seemingly long line of reports on Couchbase’s performance.

Hortonworks Reports 33ドルM in Revenue, 152 New Support Customers — The Hadoop development and support company.

Onomi Secure Funding to Build A Next Gen Database-as-a-Service

Azure SQL Database In-Memory OLTP and Real-Time Operational Analytics now in Public Preview

Joins and Other Aggregation Enhancements Coming in MongoDB 3.2

Doing More Than 1.6M QPS (SQL) on MySQL 5.7 GA

How NoSQL Fundamentally Changed Machine Learning

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Kexi Project: Open Source Visual Database App Creator — Currently for Linux only, Kexi considers itself to be like ‘Microsoft Access for Linux’.

SQL Tabs: A Rich (Open Source) SQL Console for Postgres — An open source cross platform desktop client for Postgresql.