Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 11:00AM | Derek Stainer Skills Matter is hosting the first annual NoSQL eXchange this November. Jim Webber has kindly agreed to be the Program Lead for this conference, and together we are working on a great day of learning and sharing of skills on NoSQL technologies.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 8:00AM | Derek Stainer Skills Matter and 10gen are very pleased to announce the popular MongoUK conference is back -- coming to London on September 19th! MongoUK is a one-day conference dedicated to the open source, non-relational database MongoDB. The program is a work in progress, but will feature both introductory and advanced talks on MongoDB schema design, indexing, administration, replication, sharding... (follow #mongouk for program updates)
10gen, MongoDB, MongoUK, SkillsMatter Thursday, June 2, 2011 at 9:00AM | Derek Stainer Here are some upcoming MongoDB events in June:
VMware Cloud Foundry with MongoDB - Webinar - June 2
Using VMware's Cloud Foundry open platform with MongoDB combines a flexible insfrastructure with a high performance and scalable data store, a crucial formula for developing scalable cloud applications.
Monday, April 11, 2011 at 7:01AM | Derek Stainer OpenSky has published a very interesting and detail presentation about augmenting a traditional RDBMS like MySQL with MongoDB for eCommerce. What exactly is OpenSky?
OpenSky is a social shopping platform that helps consumers discover and buy great products that fulfill their interests in Food, Style & Beauty, Healthy Living, and Home & Design.
Friday, April 8, 2011 at 10:00AM | Derek Stainer A new release of MongoDB is now available. Version 1.8.1 of the popular document database fixes a few issues that were present in the 1.8.0 release. Those still running the 1.8.0 version of the database are being recommended to upgrade.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 at 8:00AM | Derek Stainer David Mytton, of Boxed Ice, has posted his slides of his presentation at MongoUK. The purpose of the presentation is was to provide various MongoDB health tips.
Here is a summary of the points that David discusses:
Boxed Ice, David Mytton, MongoDB, MongoUK Tuesday, April 5, 2011 at 10:00AM | Derek Stainer GeoIQ announced today at the Data 2.0 conference the availability of GeoIQ Connect.
GeoIQ Connect is the first and only geospatial product that connects to both traditional relational databases like Oracle and mySQL, and multiple NoSQL object stores like HBase and MongoDB for geospatial visualization and analysis.
Here is the list of fully supported databases:
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 at 8:30AM | Derek Stainer Mongly, the interactive MongoDB shell, has added a new Geospatial tutorial. Now folks interested in MongoDB for Geospatial can try it out online and get a feel for what MongoDB can offer.
Check it out at: Mongly Geospatial Tutorial
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 at 8:00AM | Derek Stainer Couple of events for those interested in MongoDB.
Mongo Philly
10Gen is hosting another one day MongoDB conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The day is packed with two tracks from folks at 10Gen as well as actual users of MongoDB. If you are interested in using MongoDB I highly recommend that you attend one of these conferences.
10gen, MongoDB, MongoPhilly Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 11:00AM | Derek Stainer The O'Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo, returning April 11-14, 2011 to the Hyatt Santa Clara in Santa Clara, California, spreads the latest and best knowledge on MySQL and related technologies to the global open source community.
So why would a site dedicated to NoSQL news and information want to inform you of this conference? Because at this years conference there is a track on NoSQL technologies. The focus will be on how NoSQL can be used in conjunction with MySQL. Here are just a few of the tracks and speakers at the event.
CouchDB, HBase, MongoDB, MySQL 2011, O'Reilly Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 9:00AM | Derek Stainer Karl Seguin, the creator of mongly.com has created an excellent resource for those interested in using MongoDB. Seguin has created The Little MongoDB Book eBook. Though it only weighs in at 32-pages it's packed with great information.
It's not my fault the chapters are short, MongoDB is just easy to learn
Karl Seguin, MongoDB Monday, March 28, 2011 at 8:00AM | Derek Stainer Jared Rosoff, previously of Yottaa and now with 10Gen, has posted his slides from a webinar from a couple of days ago. The slides go into great detail on how to run MongoDB on Amazon's EC2 infrastructure.
What you learn from the presentation:
10gen, EBS, EC2, Jared Rosoff, MongoDB Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at 10:00AM | Derek Stainer MySQL is currently hosting a poll in which they have asked respondents to answer the following question:
Which open source NoSQL databases are you using?
While there is not enough of responses, currently at 112 at the time of writing, it's still interesting to see the responses. One note about the results is that multiple databases were allowed to be selected. Here are the current results, as of 3/22 at 10:45pm, of some of the various NoSQL databases.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at 9:00AM | Derek Stainer FourSquare has a new post on their developer blog where they describe how they built their recommendation engine for the latest FourSquare 3.0 release. Why do we care? Because FourSquare is a known MongoDB user and of course Mongo is part of their engine. How do they use MongoDB?
Querying an initial corpus to rank – We retrieve a set of venues within the radius you specify as candidate recommendations. For performance reasons, we pull back a fixed number of entries (pro tip: this means that the smaller the radius you set, the more venues we look at per unit area, potentially giving you better results). Given these constraints, we need to have a way of querying our venue database for the top N values sorted by some criteria within a specific geocircle. Most databases simply cannot handle this (at our scale),
10gen, FourSquare, MongoDB Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 9:05AM | Derek Stainer Interesting article from the folks at Ocasta Labs. Ocasta Labs has been using CouchDB for over a year now. Recently a project popped up where they mention in their post that CouchDB did not seem like the right fit. The primary reason:
It turns out the reason it was the right choice was that Mongo is quite traditional. It relies on you having a middle tier where your app logic resides. Couch is more radical and it not only replaces the traditional database but also the middle tier. If, as we did on this particular project, you already have a middle tier then using Couch adds complexity to the solution.
CouchDB, MongoDB, Ocasta Labs 
