Training – Sep 22 – Introduction to NoSQL databases

Content:

Relational databases have long proven their use, but have also shown their limitations; they enforce the use of a schema and they do not scale well over multiple machines.

NoSQL databases no longer follow the relational data model but instead allow you to use data in a structure which is more in line with the use case. In addition to being designed with scalability in mind.

There are 4 distinct types of NoSQL databases:

Key/Value
Column Store
Document Store
Graph Databases

This training will provide a theoretical introduction enforced with some practical exercises on the most popular NoSQL databases.

Redis (key/value)
Cassandra (column store)
MongoDB (document store)
Neo4J (graph database)

Prerequisites:

Prior knowledge of some programming language is required
Basic knowledge of SQL and relational databases is advised.
Bring your own laptop:
- Minimal 4 GB of RAM: preferred is 8 GB
- Vagrant installed: http://www.vagrantup.com/downloads
- Virtualbox installed (or other VM supported by vagrant) – https://www.virtualbox.org/ (http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/getting-started/providers.html)
Git Version control: https://git-scm.com/downloads

Trainer:

Tom Van den Bulck is a java software developer with a strong background in development and NoSQL. He’s currently working for Ordina (www.ordina.be) as Competence Leader Big Data, helping companies find their way in the Big Data & NoSQL evolution.