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Issue 96 — March 11, 2015
Goodbye MongoDB, Hello PostgreSQL
Mongo offers great promises of developer agility by not having to worry about your data model, yet data does have structure that sometimes needs to be managed. Here’s yet another (though awesome and detailed story) of someone moving from Mongo to Postgres highlighting the why and how they did it.
Yorick Peterse   #opinion 
Understanding EXPLAIN [PDF]
Postgres' query plans are powerful and useful, but not always intelligible. There are some really short and simple guides that exist, but this one surpasses them all.
Dalibo   #tutorial 
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EnterpriseDB    #sponsored 
Postgres.app 9.4.1.0 Released
The easiest way to get started with Postgres on the Mac now features Postgres 9.4.1 and PostGIS 2.1.5.
Jakob Egger   #news 
Performance since PostgreSQL 7.4 / pgbench
In the database world, benchmarks are a dime a dozen. But it’s often useful to see how a certain database is improving against itself between releases. Here’s a look at transaction throughput of Postgres between releases back to 7.4 over 10 years ago.
PostgreSQL Addict
Fujitsu Adding Column-Oriented Processing Engine to PostgreSQL
Fujitsu is working on a vector-processing-based, column-oriented storage engine for analyzing data stored in a Postgres database.
Datanami   #news 
How to manage and monitor your existing Postgres servers
Cluster control is a tool that helps you monitor your backups, queries, and performance, and is now available for Postgres.
Severalnines   #tools 
pguri: uri type for PostgreSQL
For a few years now myself and a few others have wanted some more tailored types in Postgres for application development. Among those were a uri and email datatype and today thanks to @petereistentraut one of those is available.
Peter Eisentraut   #code 
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Blue Apron    #sponsored  #job 
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