As we head towards the latter part of Infinispan 5.3 series, we're doing a series of blog posts where we provide more detailed information of some of the key features in this release.

In my previous blog post I compared MySQL 5.5.30 to MySQL 5.6.10, both with default settings using only the InnoDB storage engine. In my testing I discovered that innodb_old_blocks_time had an effect on performance of the benchmark.

Here's a curated list of the latest interesting links for Vert.x, Yoke (the polyglot answer to Node.js), and WebSockets.

Here's a 23-minute webinar focused on dynamic aggregation with RavenDB, a .NET NoSQL solution.

Pavlo Baron presented this 45-minute lecture on Big Data minus Java/Hadoop at NoSQL Matters.

Here's a 45-minute presentation on Polyglot Persistence from NoSQL Matters presented by Ralf Engelschall.

Sharding is generally done for one or both of two reasons: To increase I/O bandwidth, and to partition in-memory data for more efficient usage of distributed caching

Under normal operation, SQL Server Compact keeps all pending disk writes in memory, and flushes them to disk at least every 10 seconds. But you may want to flush to disk immediately under certain circumstances, and this weeks code snippet demonstrates how to do just that.

Global Transactions Identifiers are one of the new features regarding replication in MySQL 5.6. They open up a lot of opportunities to make the life of DBAs much easier when having to maintain servers under a specific replication topology.

Programmers generally recognize that SQL can be optimized: experts often rewrite queries to take only a fraction of the time of their originals. It's not just *queries*, though: database writes deserve attention along with reads. Be on the lookout for ways to improve updates and inserts, along with retrievals.

The deployment regions are paired for geo-redundancy and in Australia are located in the New South Wales and Victoria sub-regions.

UnQLite is a in-process software library which implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional NoSQL database engine. UnQLite is a document store database similar to MongoDB, Redis, CouchDB etc. as well a standard Key/Value store similar to BerkeleyDB, LevelDB, etc.

This is a blog post by NoSQL database company FoundationDB which shows a live demo cluster running the database software and a test client being put through some nasty fault scenarios such as machine power failures, network partitions, and total cluster power loss.