Mongo — the document oriented NoSQL database supported by 10gen — offers a compact, easy to learn and well documented query language. Unfortunately, using Mongo with its Java driver can be tricky: querying, mapping results and handling polymorphism require lots of code. Some libraries aim to simplify this (like Morphia), but none allows to query in a shell fashion. Jongo tries to fill that need, querying with the use of strings and unmarshalling results into Java objects.
Roger Bodamer from 10Gen, the company that develops and supports MongoDB, has agreed to come speak about all things MongoDB on Wednesday February 16th, at Xebia in Hilversum. We will start with a basic technical introduction to MongoDB but Roger knows MongoDB inside and out so feel free to suggest topics that you would like to hear more about. Of course there will be a Q&A at the end.
For more information about Roger and 10gen, have a look at their team page (he’s third from the top).
Note that we need to put a limit on the number of registrants, so if you considered joining, register now. You can register at the Dutch NoSQL Meetup page found here.
Sharing knowledge is one of our core values and as lot’s of research confirms knowledge transfer is best done between peers. We have a great knowledge sharing platform at Xebia through bi-weekly evening sessions, where we do some experimental coding and some presentations. Once in a while we take it to the max and organise a tech rally. One of those happened last Friday and it was a total blast. I’ll give you some of the highlights. More detailed posts on the technical details will follow and I’ll update the list below as they do:
Right now I’m following some geospatial tweets and came across an interesting one about a new option to add a geospatial index to a MongoDB. Since I’ve done some stuff with Scala recently I decided to insert the data into MongoDB with Scala using scamongo. Unfortunately the scamongo Scala driver for MongoDB gave me too much trouble, so I switched to the java driver.
