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FOSS Force ☛ Beyond Syslog: Building a Tamper-Proof E-Commerce Audit Trail with immudb
Immudb can work alongside rsyslog, Loki, Elasticsearch, or an operational database to give GNU/Linux administrators a way to preserve and verify the integrity of critical event histories.
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Dr Werner Vogels ☛ DuckDB and the changing physics of analytics | All Things Distributed
Running as an embedded library was a clever reimagining of where the “work” happens, working in-situ on the same in-memory data structures you already use for your tables, and caring as much about its own overhead as about the queries it runs. The research project led to a wildly popular open-source engine, called DuckDB. (Fun aside: “Duck” was because the team felt that database projects tended to use a lot of names that emphasized hyper-awesome-ultra-performance and they found it grating. Shortly before starting the project, Hannes had a pet duck named Wilbur, possibly the most influential duck in the history of computer science.) Importantly, the fact that it’s structured as an embedded library doesn’t mean that it has to always be in the client application. The library form factor just means that it doesn’t have to exist as an external service, usually on the other end of the wire. Instead, the library turns into a building block that can be placed at the appropriate point(s) in the software stack to be effective. The most extreme version of that is that the engine compiles to WebAssembly and runs entirely inside a browser tab, which you can see for yourself at https://shell.duckdb.org/.
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YottaDB ☛ R Statistics on a Live VistA Instance - YottaDB
This is a post about connecting R to VistA via Octo and generating interesting statistical analysis and diagrams. At least look at the diagrams, which were all directly generated from R!