DB Weekly Issue 99: April 7, 2016

ArangoDB: Polyglot Persistence Without Cost — An open source NoSQL database that provides flexible data model. You can use ArangoDB to model data using combination of document, graph, and key value data modeling styles.

A Free Data Generation Tool for Creating Test Data — Specify columns, data types, numbers of rows required, and get back a file in any of several formats (CSV, SQL, JSON, etc.)

MUMPS: The Most Important Database You (Probably) Never Heard Of — A quick look at a database that was first released 50 years ago but was ACID compliant and included many functions modern NoSQL systems do.

Unlimited Scalability & Unprecedented Speed with the GridGain In-Memory Data Fabric — GridGain enables high-performance transactions, real-time streaming and fast analytics using a distributed, massively parallel architecture which can connect SQL, NoSQL, and Hadoop databases. GridGain is an enterprise-ready solution built on Apache IgniteTM.

Managing Data Storage with Blockchain and BigchainDB — Chris Ward looks at BigchainDB and how it uses the Blockchain in a new and innovative way — for data storage.

Chronicle Map: Replicate Your Key Value Store Across Your Network — An in-memory key-value store designed for low-latency and/or multi-process applications. Notably trading, financial market applications.

Getting Started with Graph Databases — A brief overview of RDBMS architecture in comparison to graph-based, basic graph terminology, and real-world use cases for graph databases.

Academic Paper on ZeroDB, a Fully Encrypted Database System — ZeroDB is an end-to-end encrypted database that enables clients to operate on encrypted data without exposing encryption keys or cleartext data to the database server.

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PostgreSQL Training – Acquire PostgreSQL proficiency in just 5 days — The widest choice of PostgreSQL training course written and presented by world renowned PostgreSQL experts.

PostgreSQL Conference US is in 2 Weeks — Join the rest of the Postgres community at one of its biggest conferences in New York - April 18-20.

Interview with the Author of 'SQL Antipatterns' — A brief chat on different approaches to database design.

Reporter's Notebook: 6 Key Takeaways from Strata + Hadoop World — The big data ecosystem was on full display at last week’s Strata + Hadoop World conference in San Jose.

What End of Support for SQL Server 2005 Means for You — Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 ends on April 12.

Database Surge Led by Analytics Apps, Survey Finds

The Real-Time Rise of Apache Kafka

PipelineDB Persistence with Flocker and Docker Swarm — Covers running a basic PipelineDB server container on a host machine using Docker.

Hacking Redis To Save Money

ETL Journey from Oracle to Postgres

Lessons Learned From A Year Of Elasticsearch In Production

PostgreSQL Bloat: Origins, Monitoring and Managing — A look at the wider aspects of monitoring and managing the ‘bloat’ in PostgreSQL that’s a consequence of its MVCC model.

Four Different Ways to Handle SQLite Concurrency

Accelerate JSON in Spark SQL

One Call to Rule Them All — DreamFactory's autogenerated REST APIs work across multiple databases on a multitude of servers. Free, open source platform.

RethinkDB 2.3: User Accounts, Network Encryption, Windows Support — RethinkDB 2.3 (Fantasia) has new security features that bring more flexibility to database deployment and administration.

A Place to Learn Oracle, No Setup Required — A tour of LiveSQL, an online tool for playing with Oracle.

LiteDB: A .NET NoSQL Document Store in A Single Data File

tikv: A Distributed Key Value Store Powered by Rust

RQLite 2.0: A Replicated SQLite Database — Now with an improved, easier API, and the consensus system has been updated.