We have a venue and a date for the first Los Angeles NoSQL meetup! Hooray! Our first meetup will take place at Border Stylo in Hollywood on Wednesday, June 23 at 7 pm.

The speaker lineup for our inaugural meetup is shaping up to be fantastic! Richard Kreuter from 10Gen will be giving a talk on MongoDB, Nitin Borwankar from Couchio will be talking about CouchDB, and Mike Wynholds from Carbon Five will be talking about Cassandra and Rails.

Schedule
7:00-7:15 - Open
7:15-7:30 - Introductions
7:30-8:00 - Presentation 1
8:00-8:30 - Presentation 2
8:30-9:00 - Presentation 3

Presentations

MongoDB: the new M in Your LAMP Stack - Richard Kreuter (10Gen)

MongoDB (from "humongous") is a high-performance, open source, schema-free document-oriented database. Trading off a few traditional features of databases (notably joins and transactions) in order to achieve much better performance, MongoDB is fast, scalable, and designed for web development. This talk will cover: getting started - CRUD and the JavaScript shell; creating schemas for a document-oriented DB; scaling with MongoDB (replica sets, master/slave, sharding); interesting features for developers (capped collections, file storage, geospatial indexing); and more!

Lessons learned from a Cassandra and Rails social media
project - Mike Wynholds (Carbon Five)

This presentation introduces people to Cassandra and Column Family Datastores in general. I will discuss what Cassandra is, how and when it is useful, and how it integrates with Rails. I will also go in to lessons learned during our 3-month project, and the useful patterns that emerged. The discussion will be very technical, but targeted at developers who are not familiar with, or have not done a project with Cassandra.

Nitin Borwankar (Couch.IO)