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) ...