Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL by Evan Klitzke via @UberEng

Uber Engineering explains the technical reasoning behind its switch in database technologies, from Postgres to MySQL.

I loved this explanation and the level of detail behind it.

Earlier Generation BI Needs A Tune Up via @infomgmt @bevelson

It's time for systems of insight and next-generation business intelligence says Forresters's Boris Evelson in this blog on Information Management.

I have to agree with him.  Big Data, IOT and all the other current and future trends around data have caused a lot of change along the lines of Hadoop, Spark, MySQL, etc. but I don't see equivalent changes in the BI tools area.  Yes they were changed to handle some of these changes, but they haven't changed at the same pace.

MySQL Percona snaps up Tokutek to move onto MongoDB and NoSQL turf

Percona's acquisition of database company Tokutek, announced today, gives it a foot in both the MySQL and NoSQL camps with distributions and services.  Read about it here on +ZDNet