When to Use a Graph Database
Database models have their own strengths and weaknesses, and as software developers, we need to know which are best suited for each application domain. This session considers use cases where a graph database excels.
Can NoSQL Give Us Speed, Scale & Query?
The NoSQL movement promised availability, redundancy, speed and more but query was always the poor relation. Now, non-relational databases are increasingly attempting to fix the problem of query. This presentation explores the non-relational landscape to understand where different NoSQL databases have strengths and which use cases each type suits best.
MongoDB and Java8
Java 8 is here and with it a set of new functionality that everyone wants to make use of with the MongoDB NoSQL database. This is a quick talk on how to make use of the features like Stream API, new Date API and Lambda Expressions within the context of …
MongoDB Internals
MongoDB 3.0 introduces a pluggable storage architecture and a new storage engine called WiredTiger. The engineering team behind WiredTiger team has a long and distinguished career, having architected and built Berkeley DB, now the world’s most widely used embedded database.
Tips For Clean Relational Database Schemas
It can be usual for software developers to let the ORM take care of the database schema. In many cases it’s a bad idea as it makes the data stored in your database brittle and hard to use confidently. I’ll show a few tricks which will help you cleanly store …
Challenges to Designing Financial Data Warehouses
In today’s rapidly changing financial world, designing robust and durable data warehouses can be a challenge that does not always stand the test of time.