Issue 79 — November 13, 2015
Featured
RethinkDB 2.2 Released: The Modern Real-Time Database —
RethinkDB is an open source with a fresh, modern approach and strong support for live, realtime data streams, time series, and more. 2.2 brings atomic changefeeds and parallel scans to the table.
Ryan Paul
Shipping a New Mindset with SQLite in Windows 10 —
Windows engineers have been working with the SQLite Core Development team led by Richard Hipp to bring SQLite to Windows 10.
Engineering @ Microsoft
How to Find the Longest Consecutive Series of Events in SQL —
For example, if you want to see which users of a site logged in every day for a certain number of days. A good look at some powerful SQL.
jooq
Make Sure Your Servers Are Ready for the Holiday Traffic with VividCortex — The holidays are upon us, and you want your systems running smoothly. VividCortex allows everyone on your team to see the affects of their code, so you can prevent problems before they happen, and fix them quickly when they do. Read how we have helped others prepare for peak season traffic.
Vivid Cortex sponsored
What MongoDB Got Right —
This opinion pieces starts "MongoDB is perhaps the most-widely-mocked piece of software out there right now" before looking at what Mongo has got right and how it might ultimately work out in the future.
Nelson Elhage
Apache Cassandra 3.0 Released —
The popular large-scale, high availability, open source DBMS takes a step forward with new features like materialized views.
Apache
Is SQL A Good Place for Business Logic? —
An argument that placing business domain logic in SQL should be avoided as much as possible.
Vladimir Khorikov
Percona Server for MongoDB —
A free, enhanced, fully compatible, drop-in replacement for the MongoDB Community Edition that includes enterprise-grade features and functionality.
Percona tools
In brief
Inside MySQL news tools
Mobilize SQL Data Using a REST API Backend — DreamFactory automatically generates REST APIs and provides users with a unified REST API services platform, designed expressly with security in mind.
DreamFactory tools sponsored
Microsoft Azure Blog news
Hadoop Gets a Security Boost from eBay's Eagle —
Eagle is an open source data activity monitoring tool running on Hadoop that has just been accepted as an Apache project.
Datanami news
Happy Apps tutorial
Jixee tutorial
Periscope tutorial
Periscope tutorial
MySQL High Availability opinion
Henrique Netzka opinion
Datanami opinion
Yves Trudeau opinion
VividCortex opinion
John A De Goes
white-glove: Scans Databases for Anomalies Worthy of Developer Attention —
It’s a Node-based tool.
Peter Lyons tools
Redis Performance Dashboard and Autoscaling from RedisGreen — Seamless scaling and analytics backed by support from engineers who've been scaling Redis for years.
RedisGreen tools sponsored