Big Data: Riak versus Oracle
Different big data use cases drive the technology required to implement big data projects successfully. Pythian’s CTO Alex Gorbachev shares his insights on when you should use Riak vs Oracle for your big data project.
Data visualization, Infographics & Big Open Data
How do we utilize and big data and often open data in an easy and useful way. We have three speakers who have taken different approaches to data visualization. Moving from data to insight to action is the first talk. Gamification of open data is the second talk. Fun and …
Tayra: An Incremental Backup Tool for MongoDB
Tayra is an incremental open source backup and restore tool for MongoDB and brings intelligent backup to your MongoDB implementation. Data is precious and is increasingly becoming a source of revenue or competitive advantage for businesses. We built Tayra to allow IT departments to utilise the power and flexibility of …
Database Refactoring Patterns
This talk discusses general database refactoring patterns, database multi-tenancy models as well as techniques that are used to apply 100s of changes to 1000’s of live databases with 0 downtime for the application. The session will provide an overview of database refactoring theory, common patterns as well as a short …
Using CouchDB inside Microsoft Windows Azure Team
Will Perry, a developer on the Windows Azure team, is part of a small team at Microsoft that has been using CouchDB extensively on an internal project. He shares motivation for using CouchDB, experiences using and running CouchDB in Azure, design and architectural patterns the team used and a quick …
Migrating from Oracle to MongoDB
The talk covers the use case of the Personalisation Server, a master customers profile storage for the companies of the Telefonica Group. It provides real-time (ReST API) and batch interfaces to update, retrieve and share customers profile. Initially the PS used Oracle, but due to scalability and cost issues we …