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MongoNYC brings together developers, IT professionals and executive decision makers across the MongoDB community for a one-day conference dedicated to the leading NoSQL database. At MongoNYC, you learn development and operations best practices, discover how other businesses are benefiting from MongoDB and network with MongoDB users and ecosystem partners.
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Ben Engber, CEO and founder of Thumbtack Technology, will discuss how to perform tuned benchmarking across a number of NoSQL databases. He describes a NoSQL Database Comparison across Couchbase, Aerospike, MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase and others in a way that does not artificially distort the data in favor of a particular database or storage paradigm. This includes hardware and software configurations, as well as ways of measuring to ensure repeatable results.
Ben: Hi, My name’s Ben Engber. I’m the founder of a company called Thumbtack Technology. We are a consulting company, with one of our primary practice areas being doing NoSQL development and advising clients on NoSQL. And, the background of this talk is, you know, one of the things that comes up really often when we talk to clients, one of the first things they ask us is, ‘What NoSQL database should we use?’ And then, you know, the followup is, ‘Well, we need to learn a little bit about your business, so let’s do some discovery’. It’s the correct answer, but it often doesn’t go over that well. So, what we wanted to do, is we wanted to have sort of at least a basic baseline which would introduce them to the main concepts to give them right off the bat, and then sort of introduce a deeper discussion based on that.
So, about six months ago, we started researching within our company to do some NoSQL database comparisons, and research on the subject. And, this presentation is sort of presents a way that we can perform NoSQL database comparison. So, in some ways, what I’m going to do is come in and argue with everything that Will just said about why you can’t build an abstraction layer.
(Contributor article by 10gen, originally appeared on 10gen Blog.)
So much is written about Big Data that we tend to overlook a simple fact: most data isn’t big at all. As Bruno Aziza writes in Forbes, “it isn’t so” that “you have to be Big to be in the Big Data game,” echoing a similar sentiment from ReadWrite’s Brian Proffitt. Large enterprise adoption of Big Data technologies may steal the headlines, but it’s the “middle class” of enterprise data where the vast majority of data, and money, is.
There’s a lot of talk about zettabytes and petabytes of data, but as EMA Research highlights in a new study, “Big Data’s sweet spot starts at 110GB and the most common customer data situation is between 10 to 30TB.”
Small? Not exactly But Big? No, not really.
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Here is the new talk from Silicon Valley NoSQL Meetup Group. Jasdeep Jaitla, technical evangelist at Couchbase, will teach how to build applications, using Couchbase.
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Recently we attended the Silicon Valley NoSQL group meetup where we were lucky to record Dipti Borkar, Director of Product Management at Couchbase, who gave a talk on the Couchbase Server architecture.
Today we have a talk by Yingji Zhang of Wize Commerce on their port from MySQL to HBase.
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Another good talk for you, guys: James Taylor of Salesforce on Phoenix, a soon-to-be-open-sourced SQL layer for low latency queries over HBase data.
We have the scoop and the slides, too!
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Dag talks about their No (“not-only”) SQL strategy and how they optimize their platform with different types of data stores for their various needs. We also have an interesting conversation about column-oriented dbs.
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