ChicagoDB October Meeting

6:00pm - 6:30pm: Food and socializing

6:30pm - 7:15pm: NoSQL Summer - Yahoo! PNUTS, Discussion Lead by TBD

As part of the NoSQL Summer series, we’ll be reading the PNUTS: Yahoo!�s Hosted Data Serving Platform by Brian F. Cooper

You can download the paper here: http://www.nosqlsummer.org/paper/yahoo-pnuts

7:15pm - 8:15pm: Inside MongoDB: The Internals of an Open Source Database - Eliot Horowitz

MongoDB is an open-source, high-performance, schema-free, document-oriented database. MongoDB has become quite popular with web developers recently, both for its promise of scalability and the additional flexibility it allows when compared with a traditional RDBMS.

Over the past year there have been a series of presentations introducing MongoDB and discussing how developers can best put it to use. There have been few discussions of the internals of MongoDB itself, however. This presentation will take a look inside MongoDB and discuss how some of its most interesting components actually work.

Eliot Horowitz is CTO of 10gen, the company that sponsors the open source MongoDB project. Eliot is one of the core MongoDB kernel committers. Eliot is also the co-founder and chief scientist of ShopWiki. In January 2005, he began developing the crawling and data extraction algorithm that is the core of ShopWiki’s innovative technology. Eliot has quickly become one of Silicon Alley’s up and coming entrepreneurs, having been selected as one of BusinessWeek’s Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under Age 25 in 2006. Prior to ShopWiki, Eliot was a software developer in the R&D group at DoubleClick. Eliot received a B.S. in Computer Science from Brown University.