databases

Our databases contain valuable and business critical information and whilst there have always been manual ways to create restorable backups of Crate databases, as of version 0.53, we are pleased to announce the 'Snapshots' feature. Snapshots allow you to create incremental backups of entire databases, specific tables or partitions and restore them through Crate's command line interface, Crash.

Meet Christian Haudum, aka 'Haudi', one of Crate's integration engineers and a fan of vinyl and dub step. At Snow Sprint, amongst other things, Haudi decided to create a process monitoring tool for Crate.

There's no denying that whilst Bitcoin's future may be hazy right now, the underlying technology it relies upon -- the Blockchain -- has revolutionized many industries and projects, with more to come. Ascribe is a fascinating startup that uses Bitcoin's Blockchain to record a limited quantity of unique references to digital artworks. Thus making them traceable, accountable and (hopefully) more valuable, due to this finite amount of 'copies'.

A modern and flexible alternative to databases Have you ever been dissatisfied with SQL databases, or felt that the standard tables, rows, and columns of relational databases did not quite fit your application? NoSQL is a modern alternative that offers a flexible, dynamic style of data storage. This tutorial will provide you with a good overview of NoSQL and the benefits that it provides to users.

Check out an interview with Manish Gupta, Chief Marketing Officer of Redis Labs, about data stores, open source, and more.

Learn more about Fluree and listen to an interview one of our Zone Leaders had with Co-CEO Brian Platz.

Learn more about Fluree and listen to an interview one of our Zone Leaders had with Co-CEO Brian Platz.

This Weekly Squeak, I speak with Tanmai Gopal about Hasura, an open source and hosted platform that brings instant GraphQL APIs to your data.