Session
The No-Marketing-BS Introduction to Couchbase, Your Favorite NoSQL Database

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October 25th, 4:30 PM
Newgate Suite

Abstract

Couchbase is a love child of memcached and Apache CouchDB. This talk introduces the Couchbase architecture, features and demonstrates integration challenges as well as our solutions. Couchbase is an Apache 2.0 licensed open source project based on the existing memcached, Membase and CouchDB technologies that aims to solve your data storage problems in a flexible, fast and reliable manner. In this talk, you will learn how it all works under the hood.

Couchbase provides clustered storage management, in-memory, disk-based and hybrid working sets, a high-performance key-value store with dynamic query capabilities as well as cross-cluster replication that allows you to mix and match what aspects of CAP your application needs. All with familiar memcached and CouchDB APIs and no need for you to adjust your applications.

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Speaker

Jan Lehnardt

Co-Founder and Chief Architect at Couchbase, Couchbase

Jan Lehnardt has been involved with CouchDB since 2006 as a developer, consultant and evangelist. In late 2009 he co-founded CouchOne (now Couchbase) together with CouchDB inventor Damien Katz and contributor J Chris Anderson. He's the co-author of O’Reilly’s CouchDB: The Definitive Guide. He enjoys working with and on open source software. Jan is a co-organizer of the JSConf-family of conferences, most notably JSConf EU as well as the Buzzwords series of conferences focused on Big Data, Analysis, Search and Storage. He lives in Berlin, Germany.