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Learn SQL Interactively on Khan Academy
There are millions of SQL users around the world. Who are these people, what is SQL, and what are they all using it for? Start learning S...
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Please stop calling databases CP or AP
This blog post has been translated into Russian , Japanese , Chinese , and Chinese again . For more detail on problems with CAP, and a proposal for an alternative, please see my paper A Critique of the CAP Theorem .
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Announcing Google Cloud Bigtable
As businesses become increasingly data-centric, and with the coming age of the Internet of Things (IoT), enterprises and data-driven orga...
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Call me maybe: Aerospike
Previously, on Jepsen, we reviewed Elasticsearch’s progress in addressing data-loss bugs during network partitions. Today, we’ll see Aerospike 3.5.4, an “ACID database”, react violently to a basic partition.
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Call me maybe: Elasticsearch 1.5.0
Previously, on Jepsen , we demonstrated stale and dirty reads in MongoDB . In this post, we return to Elasticsearch, which loses data when the network fails, nodes pause, or processes crash.
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Pgsql: Create an infrastructure for parallel computation in PostgreSQL
Create an infrastructure for parallel computation in PostgreSQL. This does four basic things. First, it provides convenience routines to coordinate …
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Building a ‘People Who Like This Also Like’ Feature
A while ago a friend of mine asked me how I would go about building a ‘People Who Like This Also Like …’ feature for a music startup he was working at. For each band or musician, he wanted to display a list of other artists that people might also be interested in.
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Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python
I am super-excited to announce that the book I've been working on for more than the last year, Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python is finally available! (buy from O'Reilly, use...
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High Frequency Trading on the Coinbase Exchange
by Andrew Barisser
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Call Me Maybe: MongoDB Stale Reads
Please note: our followup analysis of 3.4.0-rc3 revealed additional faults in MongoDB’s replication algorithms which could lead to the loss of acknowledged documents–even with Majority Write Concern, journaling, and fsynced writes.
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Building Better Node.js Applications with RethinkDB
We've been using RethinkDB in production for almost a year. RethinkDB is an open-source database designed to make it dramatically easier to build and scale real-time apps. Last week, the 2.0 release of RethinkDB landed and it was given a shiny "Production Ready" badge. After five years of development, RethinkDB is…
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Finding bugs in SQLite, the easy way
SQLite is probably the most popular embedded database in use today; it is also known for being exceptionally well-tested and robust. In co...
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RethinkDB 2.0 is now production ready
We’re proud to announce that after five years of development, RethinkDB is ready for production. Download RethinkDB 2.0 ( Yojimbo ) now!
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Firefly – Full Text Search Engine for Dropbox
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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Amazon Machine Learning – Make Data-Driven Decisions at Scale
Today, it is relatively straightforward and inexpensive to observe and collect vast amounts of operational data about a system, product, or process. Not surprisingly, there can be tremendous amounts of information buried within gigabytes of customer purchase data, web site navigation trails, or responses to email…
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Scaling Out PostgreSQL for CloudFlare Analytics Using CitusDB (YC S11)
When I joined CloudFlare about 18 months ago, we had just started to build out our new Data Platform. At that point, the log processing and analytics pipeline built in the early days of the company had reached its limits.
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IBM Watson Acquires Technology from Blekko
Experience an integrated media property for tech workers—latest news, explainers and market insights to help stay ahead of the curve.
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Why We Chose Redshift
How we decided on Redshift for giving our customers access to their raw data in SQL.
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Michael Stonebraker wins Turing Award
Michael Stonebraker, an MIT researcher who has revolutionized the field of database management systems and founded multiple successful database companies, has won the Association for Computing Machinery's $1 million A.M. Turing Award, often referred to as “the Nobel Prize of computing.”
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Super Fuzzy Searching on PostgreSQL
Bartlett Publishing has put together several lists of books available from many various publishers which are essential reading for anyone interested in the topic. Check them out today!
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Start Using Landsat on AWS
My colleague Jed Sundwall wrote the guest post below to show you how one of the newest AWS Public Data Sets is being put to use. — Jeff; You can now access over 85,000 Landsat 8 scenes through our newest Public Data Set: Landsat on AWS. The scenes are all available in the landsat-pds bucket […]