An Evening with MongoDB Detroit 2013

Welcome to an Evening with MongoDB Detroit

Graham Neray, Product Marketing Manager, 10gen

This talk will introduce the philosophy and features of the open source, NoSQL MongoDB. We’ll discuss the benefits of the document-based data model that MongoDB offers by walking through how one can build a simple app to store books. We’ll cover inserting, updating, and querying the database of books.

MongoDB and Big Data Processing

Bryan Reinero, Software Engineer, 10gen

An introduction to MongoDB's tools to technologies to efficiently process large quantities of data. Topics include: Map-Reduce Useful for batch processing of data and aggregation operations. It is similar in spirit to Hadoop with all input coming from a collection and output going to a collection. Map and reduce functions are written in JavaScript and execute on the server. The Aggregation Framework is an alternate to Map-Reduce while providing a powerful means to calculate aggregate values. The aggregation framework can be used to perform SQL-like group-bys, distincts and self-joins. The aggregation framework also provides projection facilities which reshape data, add computed fields, create virtual sub-objects, and to extract sub-fields to results. Hadoop Integration is a series of plugins for the Hadoop platform to allow connectivity to MongoDB The Hadoop connector allows both reading MongoDB data into Hadoop (for use in MapReduce jobs as well as other components of the Hadoop ecosystem), as well as writing the results of Hadoop jobs out to MongoDB.

MongoDB and Node.js

Roman Shtylman

Working with Node’s JavaScript means that MongoDB documents get their most natural representation — as JSON — right in the application layer. There’s also significant continuity between your application and the MongoDB shell, since the shell is essentially a JavaScript interpreter, so you don’t have to change languages when moving from application to database. Roman Shtylman will give an overview of how to use the two technologies in tandem, and at the end, you'll see why MongoDB and Node.js are often referred to as "A Match Made in Heaven"

Motor City Drinkup Sponsored by Github

There is lots going on in the Motor City! On January 9th Detroit is welcoming MongoDB Detroit (registration is free) to the city and we want to celebrate great code and great people together with them. Lets start 2013 off by joining together, having a few drinks and sharing some good times. More information at https://github.com/blog/1367-motor-city-drinkup-1-9-13.