Issue 93 — February 26, 2016
Featured
rqlite: Replicated SQLite using the Raft Consensus Protocol —
A distributed system that provides a replicated SQLite database. It’s written in Go and uses Raft to achieve consensus across all the instances of the SQLite databases.
Philip O'Toole code
Ask HN: How to Handle 50GB of Transaction Data Each Day? —
An interesting discussion on Hacker News about how to handle large amounts of data arriving on a continuous basis.
Hacker News
Moving from MySQL to a 'Database-Free' Architecture —
A look at how a busy search data service moved from MySQL to a programming language specific binary marshalling approach, and why.
Moz
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.
RedisGreen sponsored
Building a Streaming Search Platform —
An interesting story of how several developers approached building a search platform for streaming data using Storm and Redis.
Ryan Walker
Awesome MongoDB: A Curated Set of MongoDB Resources —
About 60 links for you to enjoy.
Guillaume Gelin
Spark 2.0 to Introduce New 'Structured Streaming' Engine —
A new ‘Structured Streaming’ engine that leans on the Spark SQL API to simplify the development of real-time, continuous big data apps.
Datanami news
Amazon RDS Now Supports MySQL 5.7 —
5.7 not only offers better performance and security, but also a native JSON data type and built-in JSON functions for working with documents.
Amazon news
SQL-on-Hadoop Test: Each Engine Has 'Sweet Spots' —
With business intelligence being one of Hadoop’s key uses, the role of SQL-on-Hadoop engines has become significant.
Datanami opinion
30 Years Ago: The Rise, Fall and Survival of Ashton-Tate's dBASE —
Well this takes me back. You may also enjoy A Personal History of dBASE.
Darryl Taft
Jobs
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Heroku
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Hired.com
In brief
OrientDB news
Oren Eini news
Datanami news
Portfolio Risk Analysis in SQL —
A quick look at doing some math with SQL to calculate the risk within an investment portfolio.
Periscope tutorial
David Cramer tutorial
Carol McDonald tutorial
Gonzalo Ayuso tutorial
Adrien Moreau tutorial
The Lambda Architecture Simplified — A guide to building a scalable data architecture for real-time workloads.
MemSQL tutorial sponsored
The Magic of SQL video
Fred de Villamil
Compose.io opinion
Protector: A Circuit Breaker for Time Series Databases —
A circuit breaker limits CPU and memory usage for each query, preventing out-of-memory exceptions. This system is aimed at InfluxDB for now but may be extended over time.
Trivago tools
Unlimited Scalability & Unprecedented Speed with In-Memory Computing — GridGain enables high-performance transactions, real-time streaming and fast analytics using a distributed, massively parallel architecture.
GridGain In-Memory Data Fabric tools sponsored
restdb.io - The Plug And Play Database Service —
Aimed at people who want a database in the cloud with no coding to get going.
RestDB tools
Andrew Guenther tools