(Ananias Tsalouchidis) Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there is one question regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily : When should I use Aurora and when RDS MySQL?

(Thomas Nielsen) The new MySQL Cluster 7.6 GA supports NDB connection pooling – using multiple NDBAPI connections from a single mysqld to NDB – to allow increased concurrency and throughput.

(Dave Stokes) Both MongoDB and the MySQL Document Store are JSON document stores. The syntax differences in the two products are very interesting. This long will be a comparison of how commands differ between these two products and may evolve into a ‘cheat sheet’ if there is demand.

MySQL 5.7.8 introduced much improved version of mysqldump, It’s called “mysqlpump”, mysqlpump is much faster than mysqldump with parallel threads capabilities, There are many other compelling reasons for choosing mysqlpump over mysqldump,

(Dave Stokes) Last time we looked at moving a JSON data set from MongoDB to the MySQL Document Store. Let’s move another and then see how to investigate this date. We will use the primer-dataset.json that contains data on restaurants around New York City.

(Mikael Ronstrom) A simple test to see how much faster restarts are in 7.6 compared to 7.5 is to load a set of DBT2 warehouses and next perform a node restart of one of the data nodes.

(Sebastian Insausti) Nowadays, we make use of multiple communication channels to manage or receive information from our systems, such as email, chat and applications among others.

(Dave Stokes) Porting data from MongoDB to the MySQL Document Store is very easy. The example I will use is an example data set from the good folks at Mongo named zips.json that contains a list of US Postal Codes and can be found at http://media.mongodb.org/zips.json for your downloading pleasure.

(Shree Nair) Since April 19th, when MySQL 8.0 became Generally Available (GA), the MySQL community has been abuzz with excitement over all of the new features and improvements.

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