12.Jun.2009 at 23:55 by Jan Lehnardt
I liked the general approach of showing NoSQL databases as an alternative to relational databases (but then, I'm biased :) In addition, the respective intros were very helpful.
Alternative Databases
Scott MacVicar (12.Jun.2009 at 03:00)
Talk at Dutch PHP Conference 2009 (English - US)
Relational databases are considered the norm for most new projects but is it really suited to the task? The most common use for a database is to store data to disk in which an elaborate statement is used to retrieve. In most cases its difficult to correctly scale a RDBMS and you still need to have enough space to store an entire copy of the database.
Database systems such as CouchDB, MemcacheDB and Amazon's SimpleDB take a different approach that make it easier to do distribution and simpler to use.
This session will briefly cover why a relational database might be a bad choice for your project before exploring CouchDB, MemcacheDB and SimpleDB as possible solutions included will be some code samples and demos.
Quicklink: https://joind.in/594
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Comments
13.Jun.2009 at 08:09 by Jacob Christiansen
Nice talk. Love the accent. Maybe a bit to quick and a bit more focus on the PHP angle on the matter.
13.Jun.2009 at 09:33 by Johannes la Poutre
Good talk, nice primer into these alternative DBs. If slight overlap with CouchDB presentation was avoided, the other DBs could have been explained a bit more.
14.Jun.2009 at 10:03 by Frank van Schie
Great speaker, content was good, if a bit broad and lacking in depth. Good last-minute coordination with @janl to avoid duplicate info.
14.Jun.2009 at 13:41 by Gerard van Helden
Seen some cool stuff, but it was a bit too theoretical imho. I missed some practical use cases when to use a classical RDBMS or an alternative.
14.Jun.2009 at 21:56 by Rick Buitenman
Good talk, very informative. Maybe a bit too much for a single talk (explaining non-relational databases, giving a complete overview of the current options plus usage examples, that's quite a lot to stuff in one session).
15.Jun.2009 at 08:21 by Miha Hribar
Great talk! Too much information to process all at once, so I'll have to go through the slides a couple more times :)
12.Jun.2009 at 21:02 by Marcel Blok
Quite a nice talk about the databases, although the end was a bit rushed. Didn't stress enough when relational databases are a better choice and when the alternatives are better. Relational databases are not all bad. It depends on the circumstances.
As a sidenote I would be interested to see if these alternatives would be good to use for ORM applications.