The document outlines an agenda for a No-SQL workshop covering Riak and CouchDB. It includes introductions to No-SQL, Riak and CouchDB, along with instructions for installing each and hands-on sessions with examples to load data and perform queries.

1. No-SQL Workshop March 30, 2010 @ Vermonster HQ in Boston, MA Agenda No-SQL Background (10 mins) Introduction to Riak (5 mins) Riak install (15 mins) Introduction to CouchDB (5 mins) CouchDB install (15 mins) Data Modeling (10 mins) Hands on Riak (20 mins) Hands on Couch (20 mins) Workshop Challenge (remainder)

2. What is No-SQL? Non-relational data stores that break with a long history of relational databases and ACID guarantees.

3. Why No-SQL? Scalability

4. Durability

5. More Natural Data Representation / Modeling

6. Because

7. Kinds of No-SQL Key/Store

8. Document

9. Graph

10. Others

11. CAP Theorem http://blog.nahurst.com/visual-guide-to-nosql-systems

12. Introduction to Riak Basho's Product

13. Erlang

14. Highly Distributed

15. No Master Node

16. Link Walking (cool!)

17. Vector Clocks (kinda like git – parent commits)

18. (Riak Install, riak ping ) https://wiki.basho.com/display/RIAK/Getting+Started

19. Riak Install (ruby gems) Did you RMV today? http://neweryankee.github.com/no-sql/ Gem install: rspec

20. ruby-debug19

21. ripple

22. faker

23. Introduction to CouchDB Apache Project

24. Document Oriented Database

25. Store & read JSON

26. RESTful interface

27. Map/reduce views

28. CouchRest, CouchPotato and CouchFoo

29. (CouchDB Install) Gem install: couch_potato CouchDBX http://janl.github.com/couchdbx/

30. Data Modeling - OpenDocket Context: A project we are working on that promotes local government transparency.

31. Modeling (for this workshop): A docket_item has_many motions

32. Hands On Riak (riak implementation of document) $ git clone git://github.com/neweryankee/no-sql.git $ git branch --track riak origin/riak $ git checkout riak $ spec spec/

33. Hands On CouchDB (CouchDB implementation of document) $ git clone git://github.com/neweryankee/no-sql.git $ git branch --track couch origin/couch $ git checkout couch $ spec spec/

34. Workshop Challenge First, choose either riak or couch (or both) branch in git and load some data: $ rake import Find the difference between yeas and nays. (i.e. how many more yeas than nays?)