Schedule: Java sessions

10:50am–11:50am Tuesday, 04/21/2009
Connector/J Performance Gems
Location: Ballroom F Level: Intermediate
Mark Matthews (Oracle)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 1 rating)
Connector/J has a wealth of under-promoted performance features. Come to this session to learn about bulk data loading, load balancing, batch rewriting and the "reckless but really fast" options that C/J has. Read more.
11:55am–12:40pm Tuesday, 04/21/2009
Spatial SQL: Who Needs a Traditional GIS?
Location: Ballroom B Level: Intermediate
John Powell (eMapSite)
Average rating: ***..
(3.33, 3 ratings)
The presentation will discuss the loading and indexing of spatial data, but will concentrate on the spatial functions available for further analysis in MySQL. Specific business cases will be used to illustrate these functions, such as the real-time monitoring of boats in offshore windfarm construction. A Java front-end will be used to support the claim that Java plus Mysql equals traditional GIS Read more.
5:15pm–6:00pm Tuesday, 04/21/2009
Hadoop and MySQL: Friends with Benefits
Location: Ballroom C Level: Expert
Frank Mashraqi (Opportunities)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 6 ratings)
The combination of MySQL and Hadoop opens up new doors for innovation that weren't possible before. Hadoop allows for Massive Parallel Processing but falls short of offering the speed, features and advantages of a relational database such as MySQL. For data intensive startups with massive data processing requirements, a combination of Hadoop and MySQL may be the best solution. Read more.
3:05pm–3:50pm Wednesday, 04/22/2009
Writing Efficient Java Applications for MySQL Cluster Using NDB/J
Location: Ballroom A Level: Expert
Monty Taylor (HP), Jess Balint (Sun Microsystems, Inc.)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 2 ratings)
MySQL Cluster is unique among the selection of MySQL storage engines in that's not exclusively dependent on a MySQL server. The result is that a cluster can be accessed just as any other MySQL database or directly with the native NDB API. This session will cover application development with MySQL Cluster and Java using NDB/J. Read more.
3:05pm–3:50pm Wednesday, 04/22/2009
Clickability: Scaling SaaS with MySQL and memcached
Location: Ballroom G Level: Intermediate
Jeff Freund (Clickability)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 3 ratings)
Building a SaaS platform requires application and infrastructure engineering that push beyond “enterprise scale” to “web scale”. MySQL and Memcached play a key role in scaling the Clickability platform. This presentation will tell the evolutionary story of the core technology components that have allowed the platform to scale from 0 to 400m pages per month, without changes to the architecture. Read more.

Co-presented By:

O'Reilly Media MySQL/Sun Microsystems
  • Kickfire
  • Virident
  • Infobright, Inc
  • JasperSoft
  • Intel
  • Advanced Micro Devices
  • BIRT Exchange by Actuate
  • Calpont
  • Canonical
  • Continuent
  • Dolphin Interconnect Solutions
  • Facebook
  • HiT Software, Inc.
  • IBM
  • iDashboards
  • Oracle
  • Pentaho
  • R1Soft
  • Schooner Information Technology
  • SQLstream
  • Ticketmaster
  • Zmanda, Inc.
  • Linux Journal

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