An Introduction to MongoDB from Ross Lawley of 10gen

http://photos2.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/9/e/f/e/event_180340702.jpegThe expert speaker at our first event will be Ross Lawley (http://uk.linkedin.com/in/rosslawley) of 10gen (http://www.10gen.com/).

MongoDB (from "humongous") is a scalable, high-performance, open source NoSQL database. It stores data as a collection of documents and is one of the most prominent and widely adopted NoSQL data stores.

This talk will cover:

• Getting started using MongoDB using the JavaScript shell.
• How to creating schemas in a document-oriented DB
• Look at how you can scale with MongoDB (replica sets, master/slave, auto-sharding)
• Interesting features for developers (geospatial indexing, capped collections,
  file storage, upserts and more)

There will be time for questions at the end -- plus MongoDB swag to be grabbed.