What's the future of NoSQL?

This November we welcome Max Neunhöffer from ArangoDB (https://www.arangodb.org/) to give us a look at a new breed of "multi-model" noSQL databases.

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 synchronization 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.

Max Neunhöffer is a mathematician turned database developer. In his academic career he has worked for 16 years on the development and implementation of new algorithms in computer algebra, mainly for the open source system GAP. During this time he has juggled a lot with mathematical "big data" like group orbits containing trillions of points. Recently he has returned from St Andrews in Scotland to Germany, has shifted his focus to NoSQL databases and now helps to develop ArangoDB.