May 2015 Meeting - Polyglot Databases

The next meeting will be held at Centre cloud.ca (https://cloud.ca/) on May 7. Drinks will be provided by Pronexia (http://www.pronexia.com/).

When: May 7, 18:30 for drinks and networking. 19:00 for the talk.

Where: Centre cloud.ca

420 Guy

Montreal

H3J 1S6

Polyglot Databases

MajiD Fatemian (https://twitter.com/majidfn)

NoSQL databases are everywhere and they're here to stay. For a successful scalable web application, it is vital to understand the capabilities of NoSQL databases. Relational databases are not dead, either, and they will not be. Understanding the abilities of each will help you to make better architectural decisions. Hybrid database solutions could use the best of the two worlds. In this talk, we will delve into the important decision making factors for each. As an example, we will study an online game at Ubisoft Montreal that switched from a SQL database to a polyglot persistence with no data loss and no downtime.