Database

http://www.osdbzine.net/ pdf magazine that covers open-source databases, MySQL, PostgreSQL and alike.

http://zooie.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/a-comparison-of-open-source-search-engines-and-indexing-twitter/ this is not a strict benchmark, but rather a broad review. Results should be taken as a starting point in research, not as benchmark results.

http://sql.ru/forum/actualthread.aspx?tid=676435 this is a discussion from russian database forum SQL.RU that describes 2 common ways of storing serializable objects in RDBMS.

http://www.samag.ru/art/07.2007/07.2007_02.html test uses db schema and usage pattern from popular blog-hosting site. Benchmark uses optimized queries

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PGQ_Tutorial http://sql.ru/forum/actualthread.aspx?tid=665075 Examples how to use PgQ queue in postgres

http://lwn.net/Articles/329626/?format=printable describes recent forks, patch-sets and build of mysql. If you looking at this page deciding which fork of mysql will be better suited for your new project – maybe better to use PostgreSQL instead

http://www.syleum.com/2009/03/17/healthcare-data-model/ tells about problems with IT in HealthCare and Obama’s electronic records plan from one person’s 1fst hand experience. Make user u read the comments. (allow 30-40 minutes )

http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/database-soup/what-happened-to-hot-standby-30391?rss=1 Josh Berkus explaing why hot-standby replication did not make it into postgresql 8.4

http://www.metabrew.com/article/anti-rdbms-a-list-of-distributed-key-value-stores/ comparative review of different DHT scalable systems

https://projects.commandprompt.com/public/pitrtools/ PITRTools is a set of wrapper scripts that provide warm standby functionality to PostgreSQL. The software is essentially two scripts, cmd_archiver.py and cmd_standby.py. The project is under the BSD license.