Thursday: MongoDB & CouchDB

[Dan Croak]

Howdy Boston NoSQL reading group,

As discussed, we're talking about two document databases, Mongo &
Couch, this Thursday night. Kristina Chodorow from 10gen will be
attending, giving us an insider's view of Mongo. I'm looking for a
CouchDB representative. thoughtbot will be buying dinner.

READING
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Since both Mongo & Couch support map/reduce operations, I've made the
main paper "Google Map/Reduce":

http://nosqlsummer.org/paper/google-mapreduce

EXTRA CREDIT
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Kristina also recommended a couple of other papers...

http://nosqlsummer.org/paper/yahoo-pnuts
http://nosqlsummer.org/paper/google-bigtable

... a nice compare/contrast on Mongo & Couch:

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Comparing+Mongo+DB+and+Couch+DB

... and a few other links of interest:

http://groups.google.com/group/nosql-summer-boston/browse_thread/thread/23e3b543cd22f646

MAILING LISTS
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Both have mailing lists for users:

Couch: send email to user-su...@couchdb.apache.org
Mongo: http://groups.google.com/group/mongodb-user

HOSTING
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Both have hosting companies dedicated to the technologies. The ones I
hear the most about, particularly as ways of getting up and running
quickly as you learn the technology, are:

Couch: https://cloudant.com/
Mongo: https://mongohq.com/

Couch & Mongo are both open source projects, though, and can be
deployed just about wherever you want.

See you Thursday, 7pm, at the NERD Center!

Dan

[Alan Hoffman]

Hi All-

A few of us from Cloudant will be there to talk about CouchDB. I gave a talk at WindyCityDB on beginning CouchDB that people may find useful if they are new to the project. You can find the slides here: http://blog.cloudant.com/learning-to-relax. If anyone has any particular questions about CouchDB they'd like us to cover, please let me know and we'll do our best. See everyone at the NERD.

Regards

Alan Hoffman
http://cloudant.com