PHPNE December - I have a NoSQL toaster, why would I want a NoSQL database?

We are pleased to announce the December 2013 event for PHP North East, I have a NoSQL toaster, why would I want a NoSQL database?

The event will take place at the Newcastle Business Village - Clavering House (Location and Directions from Central Station to Clavering House).

Thanks to the generous sponsorship of Laura Sharpe of Sharpe Recruitment, there will once again be a stack of pizzas for you to enjoy before the talk.

The event is free and open to all, but please sign up online so that we have an idea of numbers for the venue, and how much Laura needs to cough up for the pizzas. Feedback, suggestions and ideas for future topics are welcome on our Google Group.

Please promote this event via Twitter or your own website to help us spread the word.

"I have a NoSQL toaster, why would I want a NoSQL database?" by Matthew Revell from Basho Technologies.

There has been an explosion in the number of databases available to us and most of them are promising exciting things such as scalability and exotic new data models. Once you get beyond the surface, what is that they offer and when should we use them? With any luck, that's what this talk will answer.

Matthew Revell has been knocking around the open source world in one form or another for a while now. He is a Technical Evangelist at Basho, which basically means he gets to come and talk to people about Riak and NoSQL in general.

Basho is the company behind Riak. Riak is a distributed key-value store offering high availability, data redundancy and massive scalability. It's open source and on GitHub. You should try it.