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The future of NOSQL and Big Data storage
Featuring Tom Wilkie
Tom Wilkie takes a whistle-stop tour of developments in NOSQL and Big Data storage, comparing and contrasting new storage engines from Google (LevelDB), RethinkDB, Tokutek and Acunu (Castle).
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Robert Rees on Polyglot Persistence
Featuring Robert Rees
Based on his experiences of mixing CouchDB and Neo4J at Wazoku, an idea management startup, Robert talks about the theory of mixing your stores and the practical experience.
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Building real world solution with document storage, Scala and Lift
Featuring Aleksa Vukotic
Aleksa Vukotic will look at how his company assessed and adopted CouchDB in order to rapidly and successfully deliver a next generation insurance platform using Scala and Lift.
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Doctor Who and Neo4j
Featuring Ian Robinson
Armed only with a data store packed full of geeky Doctor Who facts, by the end of this session we’ll have you tracking down pieces of memorabilia from a show that, like the graph theory behind Neo4j, is older than Codd's relational model.
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Real Life Cassandra
Featuring Dave Gardner
In this talk for the NOSQL eXchange, Dave Gardner introduces why you would want to use Cassandra, and focuses on a real-life use case, explaining each Cassandra feature within this context.
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MongoDB + Scala: Case Classes, Documents and Shards for a New Data Model
Featuring Brendan McAdams
Brendan McAdams -- creator of Casbah, a Scala toolkit for MongoDB -- will give a talk on "MongoDB + Scala: Case Classes, Documents and Shards for a New Data Model"
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Handling conflicts in eventually consistent systems
Featuring Russell Brown
In this talk, Russell Brown examines how conflicting values are kept to a minimum in Riak and illustrates some techniques for automating semantic reconciliation. There will be practical examples from the Riak Java Client and other places.
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The State of NOSQL Today
Featuring Emil Eifrem
Emil Eifrém gives a Keynote talk to the NOSQL eXchange on the past, present and future of NOSQL, and the state of NOSQL today.
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Welcome, Registration, Coffee and Tea
Featuring Jim Webber
Dr Jim Webber of Neo Technology starts the day by welcoming everyone to the first of many annual NOSQL eXchanges.
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