NoSQL databases get a lot of press coverage, but there seems to be a lot of confusion surrounding them, as in which situations they work better than a Relational Database, and how to choose one over another. This talk will give an overview of the NoSQL landscape and a classification for the different architectural categories, clarifying the base concepts and the terminology, and will provide a comparison of the features, the strengths and the drawbacks of the most popular projects (CouchDB, MongoDB, Riak, Redis, Membase, Neo4j, Cassandra, HBase, Hypertable).
Lorenzo Alberton
Lorenzo has a M.Sc. degree in Software Engineering and has been working with PHP and other languages for over 10 years, helping large enterprise companies in Italy and the UK. He is a long time contributor to open source projects and a spare-time researcher in the machine learning / NLP fields. He's generally interested in databases, algorithms and data structures. He recently joined the DataSift team as Chief Technical Architect. You can read his articles on his personal site or on the Ibuilding's techPortal.