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Title
GEOSPATIAL INDEXING WITH MONGODB
Abstract
MongoDB (from "humongous") is a high-performance, open source, schema-free, non-relational, document-oriented database. Trading off a few traditional features of databases (notably joins and transactions) in order to achieve much better performance, MongoDB is fast, scalable, and designed for web development. MongoDB supports two-dimensional geospatial indexes. It is designed with location-based queries in mind, such as "find me the closest N items to my location." It can also efficiently filter on additional criteria, such as "find me the closest N museums to my location." This talk will cover:
Authors
Kristina Chodorow - 10gen
