Sessions at NoSQL Europe about NoSQL

Tuesday 20th April 2010

• NoSQL at the Guardian

  by Simon Willison and Mat Wall

  How the Guardian has experimented with NoSQL technologies.

  • NoSQL
  • Redis
  • Solr

  At 9:30am to 10:30am, Tuesday 20th April

  Coverage slide deck

Wednesday 21st April 2010

• On the Birth of Dynamo

  by Werner Vogels

  • Amazon Web Services
  • Dynamo
  • NoSQL

  At 9:30am to 10:30am, Wednesday 21st April

• Twitter's use of Cassandra, Pig and HBase

  by Kevin Weil

  • Cassandra
  • Hadoop
  • HBase
  • NoSQL
  • Twitter

  At 10:50am to 11:50am, Wednesday 21st April

  Coverage slide deck

• CouchDB at the BBC

  by Enda Farrell

  Apache CouchDB is is now heavily used in production at the BBC. Learn that it is entirely possible to take "young" technologies and make them as robust as the BBC and get an insight into the approach we took in making this happen. See some hard stats about its usage, see why our circumstances led us to choosing CouchDB and hear some of the lessons we learnt along the way.

  • CouchDB
  • NoSQL
  • Scaling

  At 1:00pm to 2:00pm, Wednesday 21st April

• Notes from the field: Different NoSQL tools in Production

  by Matthew Ford

  Matt has followed the development of NoSQL databases with great interest and used them to solve many problems. In this talk, he will share his experiences of working with NoSQL whilst building web applications at Bit Zesty. He will evaluate the different databases he has encountered, as well as discuss the drawbacks in this emergent technological field.

  • NoSQL

  At 4:25pm to 4:40pm, Wednesday 21st April

Thursday 22nd April 2010

• Redis workshop

  by Simon Willison

  A three hour in-depth introduction to Redis.

  • NoSQL
  • Redis

  At 1:30pm to 5:00pm, Thursday 22nd April

  Coverage handout write-up

Unscheduled

• A NOSQL Overview

  by Tim Anglade

  • NoSQL
  Coverage slide deck