MongoDB
Mongolicious MongoDB training, provided by MongoDB themselves, was up for grabs recently, so I put my name in the hat to get a keener insight into MongoDB and NoSQL databases, having used them only a few occasions. The training was attended by a near 50/50 split of devs and DBAs and this led to some interesting debates and reactions. Like lots of the stuff I've been introduced to/have started looking at recently (I am late to nearly every technology party there is) they (Mongo and NoSQL) have been around for a while and have become established as a viable alternative persistence solution to the likes of MSSQL. The main features: Its schema less Document oriented/No support for JOINs Querying performed using JS/JSON Indexing Replication/Redundancy/High availability Scaling out via Sharding Aggregation (unfortunately we ran out of time so this is not covered here) Authorisation (again ran out of time on this one) Its schema less You'l