On Wednesday February 2nd 2011 we held our first Electronic Text Workshop on the topic of "exposed data".
The event was held in the John Kydd Room so I was somewhat concerned that everyone would fit in! The whole room has one power socket, so lets not think about that overloaded series of extension leads...
The first talk was by John Pinner from ClockSoft (above) on "Archive systems and non-relational databases". These were CouchDB and MongoDB. John showed a very interesting test comparisons showing that for at least for his data sets, Mongo was an order of magntitude faster.
Rosalind ...