Strange Loop

Getting Non-relational with MongoDB

We'll begin with a discussion of non-relational databases in general. This will focus on the gains in scalability and flexibility that non-relational systems can provide over the typical RDBMS. We will then review some of the non-relational systems that have become popular recently, including BigTable, SimpleDB, CouchDB and MongoDB.


The second part of the talk will focus specifically on MongoDB. This will be a review of the features of MongoDB and the use cases it excels at. We will also walk through a case study using MongoDB from several different programming languages.

Michael Dirolf

Mike Dirolf is a Software Engineer at 10gen, where he works on the MongoDB project. He mainly works on client drivers for Python and Ruby, but also takes time out to talk about MongoDB - he has presented at the EuroPython conference as well as meetup groups in New York City, London and San Francisco. Mike received a B.S.E. in Computer Science from Princeton University. Born in Albany NY, Mike currently resides in New York City.