Breakfast seminar on the new "super databases" and CouchDB
Earlier this week I held a 90 minutes presentation for about 30 people
about the new "super databases" and CouchDB in particular. It
went fine and although it was a "high level sweep" over the field
I think most attendees got what they expected. The slides are available here
translated to english, although some of them may be less valuable without
accompanying explanation.
The interest is mounting in this field, partly because developers and architects are looking for alternatives but also because there is indeed quite an explosion going on with new interesting databases popping up every week. My personal experience covers mainly TokyoTyrant and CouchDB but I intend to try out:
- MongoDB, since it is quite close to an object databases and has come further on sharding etc.
- One of the "Dynamo clones", not sure yet which one, Dynomite is not interesting since Microsoft has put the lid on it.
- One of the "Bigtable clones", also not yet sure which one. :)
Finally, some good and fresh info from the NoSQL community can be found at the two summaries made from the recent meetup in the US. It’s funny that I too made the "Cambrian explosion" connection in my presentation, and so apparently did one of the keynotes there. I didn’t steal it - honestly :)
/Goran