#173: Introducing TigerGraph - A Native Parallel Graph Database

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Database Weekly Issue 173 — September 22, 2017

Franchise: An Open-Source 'Notebook' for SQL — An interesting browser-based playground for data that works with CSV, JSON and Excel files out of the box, but can also connect with PostgreSQL, MySQL or BigQuery. Kevin Kwok and Guillermo Webster   tools   TigerGraph Emerges with Native Parallel Graph Database — A startup named TigerGraph has emerged from stealth with a new native parallel graph database its founder thinks can shake up the analytics market. Alex Woodie   story   The 2017 Firebase Summit will be on 31-Oct in Amsterdam — Learn how Firebase helps solve key infrastructure and growth challenges for your app, and meet the team that built Firebase. Join us in Amsterdam or on the live stream on the event page. Google, Inc.​   sponsored   Migrating from RethinkDB to Postgres — A great read on migrating from RethinkDB and ElasticSearch to a consolidated Postgres database. Phil Freeman   tutorial   Evolution of Data Structures In Yandex.Metrica — Here’s how Metrica modified their approach to data storage, reached effective hardware utilization, and maximized efficiency in response to huge growth. High Scalability   story   ProfaneDB: A Protocol Buffers Database — Based on RocksDB and can be used with any language that supports gRPC. Giorgio Azzinnaro   code   Badger vs LMDB vs BoltDB: Benchmarking Key-Value Databases in Go — How key-value store Badger compares against two other options. Deepak Jois   opinion   CallidusCloud Acquires Multi-Model Database Company OrientDB OrientDB   news   What's New in Postgres 10 PostgreSQL Wiki   news   FaunaDB's Team Secures Series A Funding — The largest series A ever for an operational database company. Fauna   news   Database Provider MongoDB Has Filed to Go Public — Following earlier speculation, database software firm MongoDB has now filed to go public. Matthew Lynley   news   State of Production Database Performance 2017 — In this report we explore and definitively answer whether MySQL or PostgreSQL is truly faster than the other. VividCortex   sponsored   How to Stop a Runaway Index Build in MongoDB — Index builds in MongoDB can have an adverse impact on availability. ScaleGrid   tutorial   What's the difference between INNER JOIN, LEFT JOIN, RIGHT JOIN and FULL JOIN? Stack Overflow   tutorial   PostgreSQL Explained With Basketball Players Jonathan Haines   tutorial   Analyzing 1.1 Billion Taxi Rides with Spark 2.2 and 3 Raspberry Pis — These projects continue to get crazier but are undoubtedly a lot of fun. Mark Litwintschik   story   HumongouS.io : A GUI for MongoDB — Generate a CRUD interface for your MongoDB collections in just a few clicks. HumongouS.​io   sponsored   pspg: An Alternative Pager for Postgres's psql Client — Replaces less and brings in support for tabular data. Pavel Stehule   tools   SQL Date Formatting Tool — Some helpers and a simple builder for working with date/time formatting with SQL Server. Jonathan Hamilton   tools   Stress-free SQLite on Android with Anko SQLite — A wrapper that simplifies working with SQLite on Android. Kotlin Development   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