Objectives

What is MongoDB?

Why should you consider using it?

How do you use it?

Summary

MongoDB is not going to replace your RDBMS

... but can work effectively in conjunction with it

Document-oriented storage is not the same as object-oriented storage

storing doc-to-doc refs is somewhat awkward

MongoDB provides for flexible execution

store code for execution on the server (a la sproc)

MongoDB supports some interesting ideas

GridFS for large binary file support

MapReduce for large dataset analysis/execution

Credentials

Who is this guy?

Architect, Engineering Manager/Leader, "force multiplier"

http://www.newardassociates.com

http://blogs.newardassociates.com

Sr Distinguished Engineer, Capital One

Educative (http://educative.io) Author

Performance Management for Engineering Managers

Books

Developer Relations Activity Patterns (w/Woodruff, et al; APress, forthcoming)

Professional F# 2.0 (w/Erickson, et al; Wrox, 2010)

Effective Enterprise Java (Addison-Wesley, 2004)

SSCLI Essentials (w/Stutz, et al; OReilly, 2003)

Server-Based Java Programming (Manning, 2000)