#164: Redis 4.0 GA Released

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Database Weekly Issue 164 — July 21, 2017

Redis 4.0 GA Released — The popular data structure server takes a step forward with several key improvements including a new replication engine and official support for modules. Salvatore Sanfilippo   tools   How Microsoft Brought SQL Server To Linux — Frederic Lardinois talks to Rohan Kumar, general manager of Microsoft’s Database Systems group, to learn how his team “managed to bring an extremely complex piece of software like SQL Server to Linux”. TechCrunch   story   A Real-Time Database Survey: The Architecture of Meteor, RethinkDB, Parse & Firebase — A comprehensive overview of the current state of push-oriented databases. Baqend Blog   opinion   Announcing: How to Earn More as a Software Developer — Technical knowledge alone isn't enough—increase your income by leveling up your "soft skills." Learn new skills faster, command more respect, find work you love, and earn what you're worth. Get the book for $0.99 (48 hours only). Simple Programmer   sponsored   Cosette: An Automated SQL 'Solver' — An automated prover for checking equivalences of SQL queries. Repo here. University of Washington   tools   BayesLite: BayesDB on SQLite for Probability Querying — A Bayesian database table for querying the probable implications of data as easily as SQL databases query the data itself. MIT Probabilistic Computing Project   code   PostgreSQL 10 Beta 2 Released — Postgres 10 is shaping up to be a great release, and the latest beta version is now available. PostgreSQL   news   First Release Candidate of SQL Server 2017 Now Available Microsoft   news   Announcing RethinkDB 2.3.6: The First Release Under Community Governance RethinkDB   news   Attend Google Developer Days — Europe 2017 in Krakow, Poland — Join us at #GDDEurope, where we will be covering the latest developer updates and best practices. Google, Inc.​   sponsored   Microsoft Prepares SQL Server 2017 for Linux and Containers The New Stack   news   ArangoDB 3.2 Released ArangoDB   news   Using ReBloom, A Bloom Filter Datatype for Redis — A look at how Bloom filters work and how to use them in Redis. Mark Nunberg   tutorial   How I Reduced My DB Server Load in Rails by 80% Richard Schneeman   tutorial   How to Migrate Your Heroku Postgres Database to Amazon RDS Sébastien Saunier   tutorial   IBM Bolsters Spark Ties with Latest SQL Engine George Leopold   news   MySQL 8.0.2: Introducing Window Functions — SQL window functions, or analytic functions as they are also sometimes called, are now available in 8.0.2. Dag Wanvik   news   How to Size Your MongoDB Clusters Susan Hall   tutorial   Why Did So Many Startups Choose MongoDB? Nemil Dalal   opinion   Database Performance Monitoring Buyer’s Guide — This guide is designed to aid when evaluating database monitoring solutions for your unique environment. VividCortex   sponsored   Building Real-Time Interactions with Spark Sruthi Poddutur   tutorial   Vedis: An Embeddable Redis-Inspired Datastore Engine — Imagine Redis without the networking layer and as a C library. Symisc Systems   code   Database Weekly is curated by Peter Cooper Read this issue on the Web See our archives Change your email address Stop getting this newsletter Published by Cooperpress Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Lincoln Way, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK