Upcoming Events

Nati will talk about "NoSQL Alternatives: Principles and Patterns for Building Scalable Applications" on September 21, 8- 9am.

In this session, Nati will explore the common principles behind the major NOSQL alternatives and how they compare with the traditional database approach, in terms of consistency, transaction and query semantics. Nati will also discuss ways to make the transition between the two models smoother, by supporting standard interfaces such as JPA.

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Nati Shalom, GigaSpaces CTO, and Uri Cohen, GigaSpaces Product Manager, will speak at the QCon Conference in San Francisco. Nati and Uri will talk about "Yes, SQL!" on Thursday, November 4, 2-3pm.

The session will focus on how the classic querying models like plain SQL and JPA map to distributed data stores.

Nati and Uri will first review the current distributed data stores landscape and how various storage models, and then discuss the wide range of APIs for data extraction from these data stores. Finally, they will discuss the main challenges of mapping SQL to a distributed data model and how various data stores tackle it.

QCon is a practitioner-driven conference designed for team leads, architects and project management. The program includes two tutorial days led by industry experts and authors and three conference days with 15 tracks covering a wide variety of relevant and exciting topics in software development today.

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