Everything You're Doing Wrong with Data

Speakers characterizations of map reduce and indexing were wrong. Discussion of CAP was shallow. Presentation skills need work.

Sitting through this talk was torture. Less informative and more a plug for this kid's toy project. Presentation was hollow, awkward, and wrought with flawed assertions.

I thought Mark was a good speaker and very comfortable in front of an audience. However, this talk was not about what I thought it was going to be about... it was a "pet project" talk, which I usually avoid. I also came out of it having very little idea how his database really works or what it's good for or bad for... seems like the main idea is that data is stored in JSON files which are downloaded to the client's machine, and then "queries" are written in JS... but this seems like it would be terrible for a lot of things.

I just felt disappointed, the first half of the presentation was promising a magical solution to all the typical DB pain points, but the solution didn't sound like anything I could use.

What can I say... It basically boils down to all fluff and no stuff. That and as Ben said, some mischaracterizations of map reduce and indexing.