New England Java Users Group: NoSQL Smackdown

I am posting this event so members of this group can recognize eachother, carpool, etc.
If you are going please, also register via the link at the end:

You've read that the relational model is old and busted, and there are newer, faster, web-scale ways to store your application's data. You've heard that NoSQL databases are the future! Well, what is all this NoSQL stuff about? Is it time to ditch Oracle, MySQL, and SQL Server in favor of the new guard? To be able to make that call, there's a lot you'll have to learn.

In this session, we'll take a whirlwind tour of five representative non-relational data stores: Cassandra, MongoDB, Voldemort, Redis, and Neo4J. We'll learn the very different ways they represent data, and we'll see their unique strengths and weaknesses in various kinds of applications. Along the way, we'll learn why new technologies must be introduced to address today's scaling challenges, and what compromises we'll have to make if we want to abandon the databases of our youth. We'll review what ACID means, role-play a two-phase commit, and even talk a little bit about file system semantics. It's an exciting time to be storing and retrieving data, and the opportunity is now before us to learn things we could ignore just a few years ago. Come to this session for a solid introduction to a growing field.

REGISTER HERE: http://www.nejug.org/...