#172: The Weight of Relational Databases - Time for Multi-Model?

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Database Weekly Issue 172 — September 15, 2017

The Weight of Relational Databases: Time for Multi-Model? — A quick thought piece on the increasing role for polyglotism in database systems as needs become more complex. Luca Olivari   tutorial   Postgres's Workings in One Picture — An interesting ‘infographic’ style image showing the various components of Postgres and how they stack together. Alexey Lesovsky   tutorial   Data Sheet: Database Performance Monitoring — VividCortex is the best way to improve your database performance, efficiency, and uptime. VividCortex   sponsored   Injecting a Chess Engine into Amazon Redshift — Redshift is an SQL-based database with a Postgres-style frontend and curiously you can integrate compiled C code with it as in this extensive example. Michael Burge   story   Database Systems Reading List — Links to a variety of 38 categorized papers on database management systems topics. Joy Arulraj   code   Over 4000 ElasticSearch Servers Found Hosting PoS Malware Files Catalin Cimpanu   news   A Sports School Data Model — The latest in Vertabelo’s relational data modelling series. Vertabelo   tutorial   A Four-Phased Approach to Building an Optimal Data Warehouse Datanami   tutorial   Partitioning Behavior of DynamoDB Parth Modi   tutorial   Get an intro to MongoDB with our Accelerator Kit — For a limited time, we're making our best resources for learning MongoDB available for free & on demand. MONGODB   sponsored   How We Optimize Apache Spark Jobs Henry Hu   story   Enhancing Relational Models with Graph Processing in SQL Server 2017 Terry McCann   video   Bringing DevOps Practices to Database Administrators Chris Chinchilla The Ultimate Guide to Oracle Indexes: Improve Your SQL Skills — Learn all about index types, index scans, when to use each index type, and more in this article. Database Star   sponsored   read-mongo-logs: A Tool to Tail Mongo Database Logs Kevin Burke   tools   Citus 7: Transactions, Framework Integration, and Postgres 10 — Citus extends Postgres with extra sharding features and now has Postgres 10 support. citusdata   tools   Redisq: An Easy, Reliable Java Library for Async Messaging in Redis GRAKN.​AI   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