Couchbase Analytics: An Evening of Technical Tapas and Beer (Note new location)

Couchbase Analytics: An Evening of Technical Tapas and Beer

Speakers:

Michael Carey, Dmitry Lychagin, Sachin Smotra, and Till Westmann (Couchbase)

Description:

The Couchbase Analytics Service is the newest member of the Couchbase Data Platform, having made its official debut in Couchbase Server 6.0 in October 2018. This meetup will provide a developer-oriented technical overview of the new service, which offers
Massively Parallel Processing of analytical queries on current Couchbase-resident data with minimal impact on the operational performance of a Couchbase cluster.

The evening will be structured as a series of “technical tapas” - short technical talks, each with an accompanying demonstration - that will cover the service as a whole, its SQL++ based query language (N1QL for Analytics), a look at its internals, and a preview of several roadmap goodies that will show up in future releases (including fully parallel sorts and support for windowed analytics).

To help wash down the technical tapas, each of the demos will all involve everyone’s favorite data - the beer-sample bucket, of course - so attendees will be able try most of what they see later, on their own (except for the previewed roadmap features).

Agenda:

6:00-6:30 Doors open, socializing, snacks, and set up.

6:30-6:45 Couchbase Analytics – Architecture and getting started demo (Sachin Smotra)

6:45-6:55 Q&A

6:55-7:15 SQL++ - Introduction (Till Westmann)

7:15-7:30 Q&A + break

7:30-7:50 Architecture (Mike Carey)
Including:

• Massive Parallel Processing (MPP)
• Disk Greater than Memory (DGM)
• Hybrid transactional/analytical processing (HTAP)

7:50-8:00 Q&A

8:00-8:15 SQL++ - What's new/roadmap (Dmitry Lychagin)

8:15-8:25 Q&A

8:25-end Brief wrap up talk, general Q&A/conversation + wrap up (Sachin Smotra)

9:00 Event ends

Talks will be primarily technical.

Presenter Biographies:

Michael Carey is a Bren Professor of Information and Computer Sciences at UC Irvine and a Consulting Architect at Couchbase. Before UCI, Mike worked at BEA Systems and led the development of their data integration middleware. Prior to that, he did time teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, did research on object-relational database technology at IBM’s Almaden Research Center, and spent a mid-career intermission at e-commerce startup Propel Software during the 2000-2001 Internet bubble. Mike earned his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley and his current interests are centered around scalable data management (a.k.a. Big Data).

Dmitry Lychagin is a Senior Software Engineer working on the execution engine of Couchbase Analytics. Prior to Couchbase Dmitry spent more that 15 years building data integration software at Oracle and BEA Systems.

Sachin Smotra’s career spans more than 15 years building software products across various domains including Java Enterprise software, DRM Solutions for mobile games and web conferencing. As Director Product Management at Couchbase, he is a hands-on product leader responsible for Couchbase Analytics, Mobile & IOT product lines including evangelizing the product strategy and vision with customers, partners, developers and analysts.

Till Westmann is a Senior Engineering Director at Couchbase. Before joining Couchbase, Till built data management software at Oracle, 28msec, SAP, BEA Systems, XQRL, and Xyleme. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and the vice president of both the Apache VXQuery and the Apache AsterixDB projects. Till holds a Ph.D. from the University of Mannheim in Germany.
Come learn about the Couchbase Analytics capabilities.

Note Couchbase HQ has moved!

This meetup will take place in the new Couchbase building at 3250 Olcott St, Santa Clara, CA 95054, just off 101 near San Tomas. There is plenty of free on-site parking. Go to the main entrance and look for signs directing you to the meetup.