Interesting datasets to play with

#​357 — June 4, 2021 Read on the Web ✍️  It's still several issues away but as of July we're placing DB Weekly on hiatus for a while due to refocusing our efforts at Cooperpress. We'll explain more over this month, but didn't want it to be too big a surprise! As part of this, we'll be revisiting some of the biggest stories we've covered, most useful tools we linked to, and sharing some of the backlog of items we've not yet been able to share. __ Peter Cooper, editor Database Weekly Firebird 4.0 Released — Firebird 4.0 ( release notes ) has been in the pipeline so long that even two years ago they were giving talks about the road to v5.0 . But that’s one of the great things about it - it’s steady, solid, open source, and mature, having originated as a fork of InterBase 6 back in 2000 (but broadly rewritten since). Firebird Team Lakehouses Prevent Data Swamps, Bill Inmon Says — Bill Inmon coined the term ‘data warehouse’ back in 1992 so if anyone’s going to opine on lakehouses, data swam