Slacker databases break all the old rules —
Good writeup on the rise of document and columnar databases, including Amazon SimpleDB, Apache CouchDB, Google App Engine, and Persevere.
infoworld.com
19:48
PostgreSQL 8.3 Release Notes —
I’ve been watching the weekly changelogs and there were a ton of performance tweaks. The FreeBSD port landed today as well.
postgresql.org
04:27
MapReduce: A major step backwards —
Rut-roh. The RDBMS crowd is none too happy about the recent MapReduce talk. This article suggests they’ve solved all these problems a long time ago and that MapReduce is basically retarded. This discussion will get interesting over the next few weeks.
databasecolumn.com
00:30
Sun and MySQL: I don't get it —
Oops: “At $1 billion … Sun paid a multiple of 10 times sales for MySQL today. Optimistically assuming a 20% profit margin, they are looking at a multiple of 50 times earnings for a return on investment of around 2% per year. Optimistically.”
baus.net
06:36
Give Me a M: The MySQL/Sun Q&A —
Steve does the Sun/MySQL aquisition Q&A and speculates on some interesting effects of the deal: “… YouTube sold for $1.6 billion, and consumed virtually no software. If that acquisition was to take place today, they would have been buying from Sun.”
redmonk.com
23:07
Sun acquires MySQL —
What?!
blogs.mysql.com
00:50
PostgreSQL 8.3 Cheat Sheet —
Wonderful PostgreSQL cheat sheet with PDF and HTML versions.
postgresonline.com
21:44
Postgres for the win! —
Yep. I can’t think of a single piece of technology that’s been less of a PITA than postgres. In fact, when I think about “solid software,” postgres is the first thing that comes to mind.
enfranchisedmind.com
09:43
Resources and the Kimball —
Patrick’s right: even if you never build a DW related application, Kimball’s articles on dimensional database design are enlightening and applicable to a million other tasks. Reading Kimball, for me, was not unlike reading Paul Graham or Richard Gabriel.
pgAdmin III v1.8.0 Final Released —
“v1.8.0 represents nearly a year of development and testing to bring you a host of new features and improvements”
pgadmin.org
09:48
Planet PostgreSQL —
How long has this been here?
planetpostgresql.org
18:02
PostgreSQL 8.2 Release Notes —
We moved from Windows / MS SQL Server to FreeBSD / PostgreSQL about 5 months ago and I’ve been nothing but completely happy with the transition. 8.2 is a pretty nice upgrade if you’re doing data warehousing style stuff.
postgresql.org
18:22