Postgresql 9.3 Released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces the release of PostgreSQL 9.3, the latest version of the world's leading open source …
MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL
It has recently been brought to our attention that the MySQL man pages have been relicensed. The change was made rather silently going from MySQL 5.5.30 to MySQL 5.5.31. This affects all pages in the man/ directory of the source code. You can tell the changes have come during this short timeframe (5.5.30->5.5.31). The…
Scaling Django to 8 Billion Page Views
At more than 8 billion page views per month and 45k requests per second, we’ve learned a couple things about delivering comments at scale.
Introducing Heka
We here on the Mozilla Services team are happy to announce our first beta release (v0.2b1) of Heka, a tool for high performance data gathering, ...
OpenZFS launch
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Android Fragmentation Visualized
Our reports examine national and regional trends in mobile and broadband network experience, and develop in-depth insights into trends impacting consumer network experience.
PostgreSQL 9.2.4, 9.1.9, 9.0.13 and 8.4.17 released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released a security update to all current versions of the PostgreSQL database system, including …
SQLite 3.8.0 Release with next-generation query planner
Beginning with this release, SQLite will not compile on Windows version prior to Windows Vista (circa 2007), due to a switch to using Slim Reader/Writer Locks (SRWLs) which are faster but which are not available on WindowsXP and earlier.
Logstash joins Elasticsearch
Logstash is an open source data collection engine with real-time pipelining capabilities. Logstash can dynamically unify data from disparate sources and...
102TB of New Crawl Data Available
We are very please to announce that new crawl data is now available! The data was collected in 2013, contains approximately 2 billion web pages and is 102TB in size (uncompressed).
RethinkDB 1.5 released: secondary indexes, soft durability, perf improvements
We are pleased to announce RethinkDB 1.5 ( The Graduate), so go download it now !
Arch Linux: MariaDB replaces MySQL in repositories
MariaDB is now officially our default implementation of MySQL. MariaDB is almost a drop in replacement, so an upgrade should be possible with minimum hassle. However, due to remaining compatibility concerns, an automatic replace is not done.
Extra security measures for next week's releases
The core committee has decided that one of the security issues due to be fixed next week is sufficiently bad …
PostgreSQL 9.3 Beta 1 Released
The first beta release of PostgreSQL 9.3, the latest version of the world's best open source database, is now available. …
SQLite improves performance with memory-mapped I/O
A complete list of SQLite releases in a single page and a chronology are both also available. A detailed history of every check-in is available at SQLite version control site .
Data looks better naked
Rather than dressing data up, strip it down—remove to improve.
RethinkDB 1.7: hot backup, atomic set/get, 10x insert performance improvement
Etienne Laurin ( @atnnn ), an engineer at RethinkDB, introduces these new features in this one-minute video: