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To SQL or NoSQL? That’s the database question

But as technological lines blur, there’s not always a clear cut answer.

It's a tangled, database web out there. (credit: Getty Images)

Poke around the infrastructure of any startup website or mobile app these days, and you're bound to find something other than a relational database doing much of the heavy lifting. Take, for example, the Boston-based startup Wanderu. This bus and train focused travel deal site launched about three years ago. And fed by a Web-generated glut of unstructured data (bus schedules on PDFs, anyone?), Wanderu is powered by MongoDB, a "NoSQL" database—not by Structured Query Language (SQL) calls against traditional tables and rows.

But why is that? Is the equation really as simple as "Web-focused business = choose NoSQL?" Why do companies like Wanderu choose a NoSQL database? (In this case, it was MongoDB.) Under what circumstances would a SQL database have been a better choice?

Today, the database landscape continues to become increasingly complicated. The usual SQL suspects—SQL Server-Oracle-DB2-Postgres, et al.—aren't handling this new world on their own, and some say they can't. But the division between SQL and NoSQL is increasingly fuzzy, especially as database developers integrate the technologies together and add bits of one to the other.

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Betriebssystem: OpenBSD 5.9 filtert weitgehend Systemaufrufe

Die Funktion zum Filtern und Beschränken von Systemaufrufen ist in OpenBSD 5.9 um viele Anwendungen erweitert worden. Außerdem unterstützt das System nun neuere Laptops besser – dank UEFI und WLAN nach 802.11n. (OpenBSD, Browser)

Die Funktion zum Filtern und Beschränken von Systemaufrufen ist in OpenBSD 5.9 um viele Anwendungen erweitert worden. Außerdem unterstützt das System nun neuere Laptops besser - dank UEFI und WLAN nach 802.11n. (OpenBSD, Browser)

Mögliche Beschädigungen: Amazon beschränkt Verkauf von USB-Typ-C-Kabeln

Verkäufern auf Amazon ist es jetzt offiziell untersagt, USB-Typ-C-Kabel zu verkaufen, die nicht bestimmten Spezifikationen entsprechen. Grund ist eine Vielzahl an Kabeln, die wegen falsch gesetzter Widerstände elektronische Geräte beschädigen können. (USB Typ C, Onlineshop)

Festnetz: Telekom stattet Förderkommunen binnen 2 Jahren aus

Die Telekom berichtet von ihren Förderprogrammen auf dem Land: Dort wird zwar meist VDSL ausgebaut. Wenn sich der Aufbau eines Outdoor-DSLAMs in einem Weiler nicht lohnt, wird aber auch direkt FTTH errichtet. (Telekom, DSL)

Internet of Wine: Das entspannende Klicken eines smarten Rotweins

Das IoT macht wirklich vor gar nichts halt, so kultiviert es sich auch gibt: Das Startup Kuvée will die Weinflasche durch einen Dummy mit Display und Kartuschen ersetzen. Na Prost! (IoT, Internet)

Cloud-Computing: Was ist eigentlich Software Defined Networking?

Im Fahrwasser der Cloud etablieren sich verschiedene Konzepte in den Rechenzentren der Anbieter. Software Defined Networking ist so eines: Worum geht es dabei, und für wen ist SDN interessant? (Cloud Computing, Virtualisierung)

Sicherheitslücken: “Feuchte Farbe” auf Steam geschmuggelt

Immer wieder klagen Nutzer über Sicherheitslücken auf Steam, jetzt hat ein Student die Sache mal aus Entwicklersicht untersucht – und ein angebliches Programm namens “Watch Paint Dry” ohne Zustimmung von Valve im Store veröffentlicht. (Steam, Valve)

Immer wieder klagen Nutzer über Sicherheitslücken auf Steam, jetzt hat ein Student die Sache mal aus Entwicklersicht untersucht - und ein angebliches Programm namens "Watch Paint Dry" ohne Zustimmung von Valve im Store veröffentlicht. (Steam, Valve)

Snapchat-Update: Fließender Wechsel zwischen Text, Video und Audio

Mit sich selbst zerstörenden Fotos ging es los, spätestens mit dem jetzt veröffentlichten Update auf Chat 2.0 entwickelt sich Snapchat zum wohl wichtigsten Konkurrenten von Whatsapp. Nutzer können besonders komfortabel zwischen verschiedenen Kommunikationsformaten wechseln. (Snapchat, Instant Messenger)

Instagram Sued for Failing to Remove Copyrighted Photo

Photographer Jennifer Rondinelli Reilly has filed a lawsuit against Instagram, claiming that the image sharing service failed to remove infringing copies of her work. In a complaint filed at a federal court in California, Reilly demands a permanent injunction against the image sharing service and compensation for the damage she suffered.

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insta With hundreds of million of active users, Instagram is often asked to remove copyrighted material being shared on its servers without permission.

If rightsholders submit a takedown request, Instagram swiftly takes the infringing content down. At least, that’s what it is supposed to do.

A new lawsuit filed in a California federal court suggests that Instagram’s takedown procedure is not always as effective as it should be.

This week Wisconsin-based photographer Jennifer Rondinelli Reilly filed a complaint (pdf) against Instagram in which she accuses the service of hosting or linking to one of her works without permission.

The work in question is an image of red lips and a microphone, which was registered at the U.S. Copyright Office in 2013. The image in question is used on several occasions, including in the profile below.

One of the alleged infringing uses

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After discovering the unauthorized use of her work the photographer sent Instagram dozens of DMCA takedown requests. However, according to the complaint Instagram failed to take action in response.

“Reilly sent DMCA notices to Instagram regarding the Infringing Uses on January 26, 2016, January 27, 2016, January 28, 2016,” the complaint reads.

“Reilly never authorized the Infringing Uses,” the complaint states, adding that the images are still present on the site. “Instagram has not removed or disabled access to the Infringing Uses.”

At the time of writing several of the reported images have been removed. However, the profile picture shown above is still present and the same is true for other copies of the image on Instagram.

To resolve the matter, Reilly requests a permanent injunction against the service, as well as statutory damages for the alleged losses she has suffered.

This is not the first time the photographer has gone after a social network. A few months ago she filed a similar lawsuit against Twitter. This case was dismissed not much later, but it’s unclear if both parties reached a settlement out of court.

A few weeks ago Reilly also sued Buzzfeed for copyright infringement and the case is still ongoing.

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Foxconn agrees to acquire controlling interest in Sharp for $3.5 billion

Sharp still has billions in liabilities, so Foxconn took time to do due diligence.

(credit: Fang Hsieh)

On Wednesday morning, Bloomberg and Reuters reported that the struggling Japanese giant Sharp had sold a two-thirds stake to Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics contractor manufacturer, for 389 billion Japanese yen ($3.5 billion, £2.4 billion).

The offer is about $1 billion less than what Foxconn had been expected to offer last month.

The deal, if it is formally approved by both corporate boards, is expected to represent a crowning achievement for Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou, who hopes that his newly enlarged firm can become a major supplier of smartphone screens. At the moment, Sharp is one of just three screen suppliers to Apple.

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