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FoundationDB community highlights, two weeks in
In two weeks since open sourcing FoundationDB , we’ve had an outpouring of interest.
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The most popular blog posts about databases & data on Hacker News. 265 posts.
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One Giant Leap for SQL: MySQL 8.0 Released
MySQL is the last major SQL database that has evolved beyond SQL-92 by introducing window functions (OVER) and common table expressions (WITH [RECURSIVE])
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Reproducible machine learning with PyTorch and Quilt
In this article, we'll use Quilt to transfer versioned training data to a remote machine. We'll start with the Berkeley Segmentation Dataset, package the dataset, then train a PyTorch model for super-resolution imaging.
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Jepsen: Aerospike 3.99.0.3
Aerospike , formerly Citrusleaf, is a distributed, sharded document store designed for high-throughput, low-latency applications. Each record is a map of keys to values, which may be either primitive types (integers, strings, bytes, etc.) or nested collections like lists and maps. Secondary indices are also available…
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A Look at MyRocks Performance
Taking a look at MyRocks performance through some benchmark testing.
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Learning Python for Social Scientists (2015)
I’ve compiled a list of Python tutorials and annotated analyses. I've tried to list pages that are accessible to social scientists with little background in Python and/or machine learning.
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Why DNSFilter replaced InfluxDB with TimescaleDB
Stay informed with the latest updates, trends, and insights on DNS and content filtering. Get useful tips and best practices in network security.
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Full Ethereum blockchain now available as a BigQuery public dataset
Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies have captured the imagination of technologists, financiers, and economists. Digital currencies are only one application of the underlying blockchain technology. Earlier this year, we made the Bitcoin dataset publicly available for analysis in Google BigQuery. Today we’re making the…
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Serverless Databases: The Future of Event-Driven Architecture
Serverless Database is specially designed for the workloads which are unpredictable & can change rapidly. Click to know everything about Serverless Database.
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CockroachDB Interactive, D3-Powered Simulations
An interactive demo (using D3) of CockroachDB. Watch as CockroachDB evolves with your application, from proof-of-concept, to multi-node cluster, to international deployment.
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Transforming Wikipedia into a cultural knowledge quiz
Building “Test Your Culture” by taking the world’s largest encyclopedia… and combining it with data science
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Optimization tricks in Python: lists and tuples
An overview of optimization tricks for lists and tuples
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How to Read 100s of Millions of Records per Second from a Single Disk
This article gives an overview of the implementation and performance of two recent additions to LocustDB, an extremely fast open-source analytics database built in Rust. The first addition is suppo…
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Do We Need Distributed Stream Processing?
In the era of big data and AI, many data-intensive applications exhibit requirements that cannot be satisfied by traditional batch processing models. Streaming applications, such as click stream analytics , IoT data processing, network monitoring , or financial fraud detection , must support high processing rates…
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Fun with NFL Stats, Bokeh, and Pandas
An exploration of NFL play-by-play statistics with Bokeh and Pandas.
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Using data to determine if Die Hard is a Christmas movie
Ok, enough bickering and fighting.
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Announcing Google Cloud Spanner as a Vault Storage Back End
By using Cloud Spanner as a storage backend for HashiCorp Vault, you get all the benefits of a traditional relational database, the scalability of a globally-distributed data store, and the availability of a fully managed service.
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Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2018
This review looks at the quarterly and lifetime statistics for 98,184 hard drives with a focus on consumer vs. enterprise drive reliability.
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Postgres as the Substructure for IoT and the Next Wave of Computing
IoT applications generate torrents of data. Learn how - and why - to use TimescaleDB to scale PostgreSQL by 20x and harness its power for IoT.
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Important database news from the last few months
Google and Amazon acknowledge benefits of SQL, Elasticsearch introduces SQL interface, and MySQL finally becomes modern…after 20 years. These are exciting times in the world of databases.
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