What is NewSQL? Use cases which made it happen!

This will be an inaugural meeting of our group. We will have a couple of speakers from that will shed the light on why and how NewSQL is emerged.

Technologies of interest include:

Database as a service - Amazon RDS, SQL Azure, Database.com, Xeround, FathomDB

Stand-alone products - HadlerSocket, Akiban, Clustrix, Drizzle, GenieDB, ScalArc, CodeFutures, Schooner MySQL, Tokutek, ScaleBase, NimbusDB, Continuent, VoltDB and TransLattice

Agenda:

6:00 pm – 7:00 pm:
Registration & Mixer (there will be some food and drinks) 7:00 pm – 7:45 pm:Lightning Talks by NewSQL vendors focused on use cases. 7:45 pm – 8:30 pm:
Panel of end users and founders of NewSQL companies. 8:30 pm – 9:00 pm:
Q&A Session, Networking, Mixer Speakers and Panelists:

Blake Connell, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, VMware Dr John R Busch, CTO, Founder, Chairman of the Board, Schooner, Inc. Alexey Kobozev, Chief Architect, Xeround, Inc. Cory Isaacson, CEO, CodeFutures Corporation Leif Walsh, Engineer, Tokutek, Inc. Ori Herrnstadt, Co-Founder and CTO, Akiban Technologies, Inc. Robert Geiger, VP, Engineering, TransLattice, Inc. Sergei Tsarev, CTO and Founder, Clustrix, Inc. http://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/8/c/2/0/event_109595872.jpeghttp://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/1/a/6/0/event_109506752.jpeg

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