froscon2009 - 1.0
FrOSCon
Free and Open Source Software Conference
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Scott MacVicar |
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| Day | Day 1 (2009-08-22) |
| Room | C118/PHP |
| Start time | 15:15 |
| Duration | 01:00 |
| Info | |
| ID | 415 |
| Event type | Lecture |
| Track | PHP |
| Language used for presentation | English |
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Alternative Databases
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.
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.