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What kind of database do you need?

Thanks to new database projects like CouchDB, TokyoCabinet, Solr and others, there are more non-relational database options available than ever for developers. Yet good information on how to choose what kind of database you need is still scarce. We’ll cure that in this talk.

When do you want to use a SQL-relational database? When do you want to use a non-relational database? What are the types of non-relational databases available today? What kinds of things is each well-suited for?

Database geek Josh Berkus will explain how to evaluate the database tasks you need to accomplish, and put you on the road to choosing the database product … or more likely, products … which are right for you.

Tags

SQL, database, application development, nosql, relational

Speaking experience

Speaker

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  Josh Berkus

  PostgreSQL Project
  • Website: http://www.pgexperts.com/
  • Blog: http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/database-soup
  • Twitter: fuzzychef

  Biography

  Josh Berkus is best known as a Core Team member of the world-spanning PostgreSQL project. He is CEO of PostgreSQL Experts, Inc. and in his 12 years as a database consultant he has worked with CouchDB, MySQL, Oracle, and MSSQL Server as well as Postgres, and is heavily involved in many OSS communities, including BIRT, OSCON, OSfA, Noisebridge and more. He’s also a potter and a mean cook.

  Sessions

  • * Give a Great Tech Talk
    • Title: Give a Great Tech Talk
    • Track: Culture
    • Room: St. Johns
    • Time: 10:00 – 11:45am
    • Excerpt:

      Why do so many technical presentations suck? Make sure that yours
      doesn’t. Josh Berkus and Ian Dees will show you how to share your
      ideas with your audience by speaking effectively and (when the
      situation warrants it) showing your code.

    • Speakers: Josh Berkus, Ian Dees
  • * Relational vs. Non-Relational
    • Title: Relational vs. Non-Relational
    • Track: Cooking
    • Room: Morrison
    • Time: 2:30 – 3:15pm
    • Excerpt:

      What kind of database do you need?

      Thanks to new database projects like CouchDB, TokyoCabinet, Solr and others, there are more non-relational database options available than ever for developers. Yet good information on how to choose what kind of database you need is still scarce. We’ll cure that in this talk.

    • Speakers: Josh Berkus
  • * Introduction to PostgreSQL
    • Title: Introduction to PostgreSQL
    • Track: Cooking
    • Room: Broadway
    • Time: 1:30 – 2:15pm
    • Excerpt:

      Interested in using PostgreSQL for you next project, or migrating to it? This tutorial will go over the basics of PostgreSQL administration and database application design.

    • Speakers: Josh Berkus, Christophe Pettus