Meeting Topic: Non-Relational Database Systems

As more web developers strive to make their applications scalable we see a shift away from the traditional LAMP stack towards technologies built with a focus on scaling. As part of this shift, a new approach to data storage for the web is needed – the traditional RDBMS are not suited to many of the problems that appear in large scale web applications. Fortunately, a large number of alternatives to the RDBMS have sprung up, each with different goals and approaches to the problem of scalability.

This talk provides a glimpse at some of the reasons that non- relational database systems have become popular recently, and what that means for web developers. It will focus on MongoDB, an open- source, high-performance, schema-free, document-oriented database. The talk will examine the problem domains that non-relational database systems (and MongoDB in particular) excel at, as well as where MongoDB fits into the overall architecture of a standard web application.

Presenter: Eliot Horowitz

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