Trainings

Want to go into detail with the technical aspects of NoSQL? This year we are pleased to offer our attendees a technical training program in addition to the rich choice of presentations! The NoSQL Trainings will start after lunch and takes place simultaneously with the use case presentations.

Each Training sessions has a maximum limit of 20 participants and will be assigned on the basis of first come, first served.

Neo4j Traning

Speaker: Stefan Armbruster

Room: Bürklein

TRAINING ABSTRACT:

This workshop covers the main functionalities of the Neo4j graph database, guided by several exercises. Topics include:

Introduction to Neo4j
Starting Neo4J in embedded mode
Discover the core Java API to manipulate nodes and relationships
Practice the traversal APIs for more complex tasks
Learn Cypher query language
Develop a custom REST API through Neo4J server extensions

Attendees won't need any previous experience with Neo4j, but will need their own laptop with a JDK (version 6 at least) and Maven 3.

Big Data Analyses with R

Speaker: Dr. rer. nat. Markus Schmidberger

Room: TBA

TRAINING ABSTRACT:

Big Data is on every CIO's mind. It is presently synonymous with open-source technologies like Hadoop, and the 'NoSQL' class of databases. Another technology that is shaking things up in Big Data is R. R (www.r-project.org) is an open source programming language and software environment designed for statistical computing and visualization. Today, R is quickly becoming the new standard for statistics and version number 3.0.0 is already announced for summer 2013. The R statistical software is the fastest growing analytics platform in the world, and is established in both academia and companies for robustness, reliability and accuracy.

We will demonstrate the usability of R for business analytics in Big Data problems covering the following topics followed by many real world examples:

R history and introduction
R programming and visualization
R for Big Data: MongoDB and Hadoop connection

Riak training

Speaker: Chris Molozian

Room:TBA

TRAINING ABSTRACT:

Riak is the scalable, highly available, ops-friendly key value database that's in use at GitHub, Rovio and BestBuy.

In this session you'll learn how to work with Riak as a developer, with topics including:

Modelling your data in the schema-free, key-value world.
Taking the development environment for a spin on your laptop.
Add data to your Riak cluster using the REST interface.
Build a simple Ruby application that store and retrieves data with Riak.

All you need to attend is your laptop, the Ruby runtimes and a sense of fun!