September picks

Wed, Oct 7, 2015

“Random picks from all over the Internet”.

English

How CockroachDB Does Distributed, Atomic Transactions In short: they place new values near the original ones and use some kind of a switch (“transaction record”) to flip between old and new values.
Ditch Your ORM This could be an eye opener for those who are working with ORM. Author had been working with Data Mapper project for over 4 years.
How does a relational database work Fantastic article! If you’ve always wanted to know how relational DBs work, this is the best place to start. (Russian)
Clarifications about Redis and Memcached Excellent article, which explains some of the differences between Redis and Memcached.

4 Myths about In-Memory Databases Busted A very good presentation, which compares Aerospike, Couchbase, Redis and Cassandra.