Amazon Aurora Serverless: Databases on Demand

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Database Weekly Issue 182 — December 1, 2017

A Look at the Graph Database Landscape — Graph databases are the fastest growing category in all of data management, according to DB-Engines.com. Datanami   news   Amazon Aurora Serverless: Databases on Demand — Aurora is AWS’s MySQL- and Postgres-compatible scalable database service and they’re now working on a pay-as-you-go variant for highly variable workloads. Amazon Web Services   news   InfluxDB Internals - Part Two — Last month we shared part one of this series, here’s the second one. Learn how we built the fastest growing open source time series database. InfluxData   sponsored   Hello Memgraph: A Real-Time Transactional Graph Database — Designed for the ‘artificial and machine intelligence’ era, Memgraph is focused on speed and scale and is available in an early access ‘Community Edition’. Dominik Tomicevic   tools   SQL's Transaction Isolation Levels — A look at the four isolation levels for transactions in the SQL standard and, in particular, how they apply to Postgres. Igor Šarčević   tutorial   Amazon Neptune: A Fully Managed Graph Database Service — A big week for graph databases, it seems, as Amazon announces a new graph database service for AWS users. Amazon Web Services   news   How We Migrated from Heroku PostgreSQL to AWS RDS — A practical look at how a customer survey company moved their main production database from Heroku to Amazon Web Services. Wootric   story   Amazon RDS Now Supports Database Storage Sizes up to 16TB — RDS has increased the max storage size from 6 TB up to 16 for a single instance. Amazon Web Services   news   New 'H1' EC2 Instances: Fast, Dense Storage for Big Data Applications — Suited for large MapReduce clusters, distributed file systems, Apache Kafka processing, etc. Amazon Web Services   news   BlazingDB and Raising $2.9M from NVIDIA and Samsung — BlazingDB is a distributed GPU-accelerated SQL data warehouse. Rodrigo Aramburu   news   World-Class Data Engineering with Amazon Redshift — Learn from companies like Postmates and Udemy on how they got a fast Redshift cluster. intermix.​io   sponsored   NULL in SQL: Indicating the Absence of Data Markus Winand   tutorial   How To Encrypt Traffic to Redis using Spiped on Ubuntu DigitalOcean   tutorial   How Citus Executes Distributed Transactions on Postgres citusdata   story   Replacing Elasticsearch with Rust and SQLite — Not something you’d typically want to do but an interesting story nonetheless. Nick Babcock   story   Why Amazon DynamoDB Isn’t for Everyone — And how to decide when it’s right for you. Forrest Brazeal   opinion   Did Spark Really Kill Hadoop? Julia Cook   opinion   $20 Free on a New Linode Account — Linux cloud hosting starting at 1GB of RAM for $5/mo. Get $20 credit on a new account. Linode Cloud Hosting   sponsored  tools   tuql: Automatically Create a GraphQL Server From a SQLite Database Brad Daily   tools   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