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MEETING INTRODUCTION
Unigroup's September 2012 meeting will be a technical talk about the PostgreSQL Database and Database Clustering. It will make a nice followup to our previous talk on Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) Internals.
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DIRECTIONS
Location:
The Cooper Union (http://www.cooper.edu)
School of Engineering (*** New Building ***)
41 Cooper Square (3rd Avenue @ 7th Street, between 6th & 7th Streets)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City, 10003
Meeting Room: ** (See Above, Room May Change Month-to-Month)
Located on the East side of Cooper Square. Look for the
new building with the non-traditional appearance.
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Nearest mass transit stations are:
'6' to Astor Place (stops right at The Cooper Union),
then walk 1 block East and 1 block South.
'R' to 8th Street, then walk about 2 blocks East
then 1 block South.
'4/5/6/R/N/Q' to Union Square, then walk South and East.
'B/D/F/V' to Broadway-Lafayette, then walk North and East.
Free street parking in the area becomes available at 6pm.
There are also parking lots on Broadway, at (or just south of)
Astor Place (8th Street).
PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Topic: Clustered PostgreSQL Databases
Introduction & Description of Talk:
This talk will provide a brief overview of PostgreSQL Clustering, but will primarily focus on Postgres-XC, an open-source write-scalable, clustered database project.
Postgres-XC (eXtensible Cluster) is a multi-master write-scalable PostgreSQL cluster based on shared-nothing architecture, developed by Postgres-XC Development Group.
Outline of Talk:
References & Web Resources:
Postgres-XC Project Page:
http://postgres-xc.sourceforge.net/
Postgres-XC Wiki:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Postgres-XC
StormDB:
http://www.stormdb.com
Wikipedia Articles on Databases:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_database
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_processing
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Mason Sharp is co-founder and CTO of StormDB. Mason has had a passion for RDBMS systems and data management since he was a university student. Mason developed a parallel distributed MPP database system targeted towards data warehousing called ExtenDB, which was folded into EnterpriseDB as GridSQL in 2007. He also recently helped architect Postgres-XC, a shared-nothing database system targeted for write scalability and which makes for one of the key technological underpinnings of StormDB.
COMPANY BIOGRAPHY
StormDB is a cloud services company based on the Jersey Shore in Red Bank, NJ. We are passionate about making powerful yet simple to use distributed databases. All too often developers need to make trade-offs to balance scalability, reliability and cost for their database needs, but we believe that they don't need to, they just haven't had the right solution yet. StormDB's unique cloud utility model around a large scale relational database cluster gives developers the solution they really need. Simplicity, reliability, scalability without busting your budget.
GIVEAWAYS
Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR, and O'Reilly have been kind enough to provide us with review copies of some of their books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our meetings. The publishers always ask that the persons receiving the books provide a review and/or feedback about their books.
Unigroup would like to thank both companies for the support provided by their User Group programs.
As always, all of the books will be available for review at the start of the meeting.
We have some Solaris Related CD-ROMs from our friends at the local NYC Sun Microsystems Office.
(Note: Our supply of books is low right now, we hope to resolve that soon.)
FEE SCHEDULE
Unigroup is a Professional Technical Organization and User Group, and its members pay a yearly membership fee. For Unigroup members, there is usually no additional charges (ie. no meeting fees) during their membership year. Non-members who wish to attend Unigroup meetings are usually required to pay a "Single Meeting Fee".
Yearly Membership (includes all meetings): $ 50.00
Student Yearly Membership (with current! ID): $ 25.00
Non-Member Single Meeting: $ 20.00
Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with! ID): $ 5.00
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FOOD AND REFRESHMENTS
Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served. This includes "wraps" such as turkey, roast beef, chicken, tuna and grilled vegetables as well as assorted salads (potato, tossed, pasta, etc), cookies, brownies, bottled water and assorted beverages.
StormDB will be sponsoring the food service for this meeting. Thanks StormDB!
Please join us for this meeting, you won't want to miss it!
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