Getting Friendly With Document Databases

Here is a draft of what I plan to present in Part 1 of the NoSQL Series on Jan 24th at Fenwick & West in Mountain View, CA (The series has 4 parts in all. It runs between 1/24 and 1/27, everyday at 7pm). The event is  hosted by the Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Meetup.

Topic: Getting Friendly With Document Databases

Scope:

Products covered: MongoDB (mongodb.org) and CouchDB (couchdb.apache.org)

Level: Introductory but not cursory. Full of examples.

Duration: 60 mins. (1 hour) — may have too much for an hour. Could do a bit more than an hour if need be.

Session Contents:

— Document databases

• What are they?
• Their essential structure (in the context of MongoDB and CouchDB)
• Data types supported
• Schemaless

— Creating, Reading, Updating and Deleting Documents

• Using MongoDB
• Using CouchDB

— Querying Documents

• Filtering
• Ordering
• Limiting result set
• Grouping
• Joining (?)

(Includes MapReduce)

— Indexes

• Types
• How-to

— Very first steps in performance tuning

• Understanding query plans
• Faster query results

— A few peculiarities

— Questions

This should give you a head start but an hour isn’t enough to cover all the details so am planning on organizing a follow-up 2 day training in February. See you on Jan 24 at Fenwick & West.