2009-10-27T11:07:20-04:00 Mike 16 Dirolf image/jpeg mike_dirolf.jpg 59493 2009-10-28T12:01:24-04:00 Software Engineer, 10gen mdirolf 2010-02-03T13:04:01-05:00 Mike Dirolf /system/pictures/16/thumb/mike_dirolf.jpg?1256745684 4 2010-01-04T11:24:00-05:00 9 2 Intro to MongoDB 9 16 22 2010-02-17T15:49:38-05:00 Infrastructure Ballroom A <p>MongoDB is an open-source, high-performance, schema-free, document-oriented database. The goal of the MongoDB project is to bridge the functionality gap between a key/value store and a traditional <span class="caps">RDBMS</span>. This talk will introduce MongoDB and discuss some of the reasons why MongoDB might be the right fit for your project.</p> <p>We&#8217;ll introduce MongoDB by explaining how it compares to traditional relational databases as well as some other non-relational systems. This will focus on the gains in scalability and flexiblity that make MongoDB an attractive option, as well as some examples of when MongoDB might not be the best fit. Following this introduction we will discuss some specific use cases for MongoDB. This will include examples of interacting with MongoDB from several different languages. We will review some of the advanced features of MongoDB and discuss how they can be put to good use.</p> <p>Mike Dirolf is a Software Engineer at 10gen, where he works on the MongoDB project. He mainly works on client drivers for Python and Ruby, but also takes time out to talk about MongoDB &#8211; he has presented at EuroPython, Strange Loop Conf, RuPy and RubyConf as well as at meetup groups in New York City, London, Washington D.C. and San Francisco. Mike received a B.S.E. in Computer Science from Princeton University. Born in Albany NY, Mike currently resides in New York City.</p>