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Designing A Non-Relational Database Engine

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Databases come in a variety of formats for different use cases. The default association with the term "database" is relational engines, but non-relational engines are also used quite widely. Can you describe what constitutes a NoSQL database? When is a NoSQL database/RavenDB the wrong choice?

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Readings in Streaming Database Systems

Confluent

What will the next important category of databases look like? For decades, relational databases were the undisputed home of data. They powered everything: from websites to analytics, from customer data […].

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Building Transactional Systems Using Apache Kafka

Confluent

Traditional relational database systems are ubiquitous in software systems. They are surrounded by a strong ecosystem of tools, such as object-relational mappers and schema migration helpers. A tomicity in relational databases ensures that a transaction either succeeds or fails as a whole.

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Cloudera Operational Database application development concepts

Cloudera

Cloudera Operational Database is now available in three different form-factors in Cloudera Data Platform (CDP). . If you are new to Cloudera Operational Database, see this blog post. In this blog post, we’ll look at both Apache HBase and Apache Phoenix concepts relevant to developing applications for Cloudera Operational Database.

Database 104
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Simplify Delta Lake Complexity with mack.

Confessions of a Data Guy

Anyone who’s been roaming around the forest of Data Engineering has probably run into many of the newish tools that have been growing rapidly around the concepts of Data Warehouses, Data Lakes, and Lake Houses … the merging of the old relational database functionality with TB and PB level cloud-based file storage systems.

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Unpacking Fauna: A Global Scale Cloud Native Database

Data Engineering Podcast

FaunaDB is a cloud native database built by the engineers behind Twitter’s infrastructure and designed to serve the needs of modern systems. How does it compare to some of the other global scale databases that have been built in recent years such as CockroachDB? Can you describe the query format?

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Building Pinterest’s new wide column database using RocksDB

Pinterest Engineering

In 2020, anticipating the growing needs of the business and to simplify our storage offerings, we decided to consolidate our different key-value systems in the company into a single unified service called KVStore. Additionally, the last section explains how this new database supports a key platform in the product.