NoSQL Night #1

Tuesday 4th of November the first NoSQL night will take place in Boston at the General Assembly campus close to South Station.

During the event, after an introductory talk we are going to see a representative from Arango DB (https://www.arangodb.org/), one from Orient DB (http://www.orientechnologies.com/orientdb/), and MongoDB (http://www.mongodb.com/) covering some pretty advanced features of several NoSQL solutions.

During the event free beers and food will be provided by Cengage Learning (http://www.cengage.com).

See you in November to talk and discuss about the future of databases in the enterprise!

Meeting Agenda:

Pros and Cons of MongoDB [John Jenson profile (http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnrjenson)]
A knowledge sharing talk from John Jenson Principle Engineer at Cengage Learning.

Ten Things to Know when Starting with NoSQL [Giorgio Natili @giorgionatili (https://twitter.com/giorgionatili)]
NoSQL is a very fancy word in the IT world since at least 4 years and nowadays also the enterprise is starting to look to NoSQL databases as the future. During this talk we will look at the 10 most important things to consider when picking a NoSQL database in order to be able to decide infrastructure according to the existing data. We will also examine other requirements such as memory persistence, multiple models, indexing systems, etc. (speech level: novice/intermediate; duration: 20 minutes)

ArangoDB - Is multi-model the future of NoSQL? [Max Neunhöffer]
ArangoDB is one of the new breeds of "multi-model" databases, since it is a document store, a graph database and a key/value store combined in one program. Therefore it is able to cover a lot of use cases which otherwise would need multiple different database systems. This approach offers an alternative to the idea of "polyglot persistence", which has become very popular in recent years although it creates some friction in the form of data conversion and synchronisation between different systems.In this talk I will explain the motivation behind the multi-model approach, discuss its advantages and limitations, and will then risk to make some predictions about the NoSQL database market in five years time, which I shall only reveal during the talk. (speech level: intermediate; duration: 40 minutes)

Why Relationships are cool, but joins suck [Daniel Cardin]
The relational model, the most popular storage model for the past decades uses joins as a way to navigate relationships. But is it the most efficient approach? Maintaining fast access to data, accross relationships, is extremely important as databases become larger. In this talk, we will see where the relational model and its joins fails us when databases massively grow. We will also see how OrientDB, with its hybrid document/graph model, allows us to build complex data models that scale. (speech level: intermediate; duration: 40 minutes)