Trip Report: Bulgarian Web Summit
I have never been to Sofia, Bulgaria till this past February 2016, and boy did I enjoy myself. I visited the Bulgaria Web Summit and spoke there amongst many others. A few notes:
- Almost 800 people (so more than last year); hence the event was sold out
- Missed the RocksDB talk due to the massive Q&A session that went on afterwards.
- Very interesting messaging
LinvoDB
- LinvoDB (embeddable MongoDB alternative) — LinvoDB / www.strem.io
- Library written entirely in JavaScript without any dependencies. Converts any KV store to a MongoDB-like API, with Mongoose-like models, and live queries
- Use case: < 1 million objects (indexes are in memory using a binary search tree; so don’t use it for more). HTML5/Electron/NW.js. Best used with AngularJS/React and maybe Meteor. Can also use NativeScript or React Native. You can use it with node.js but its not recommended for server use cases.
- Works with SQLite or LevelDB (why not RocksDB yet?). Can also use with IndexedDB/LocalStorage
- Implemented almost entirely the MongoDB query language. Gives you automatic indexes.
- FTS in memory (linvodb-fts) – uses trie/metaphone modules for node.js. Can also do p2p replication, persistent indexes, compound indexes
My talk
I enjoyed speaking about MariaDB Server as always, and its clear that many people had a lot of questions about it. Slides. Video. It was tweeted that I had to answer questions for about as long as my talk, afterwards, and it was true :)
I got to meet Robert Nyman at the social event (small world, since he works at the office where Jonas of ex-MySQL fame does). Also met someone very interested in contributing to InfiniDB. It was nice having a beer with my current colleague Salle too. And speaking to the track moderator, Alexander Todorov was also a highlight – since we had many common topics, and he does an amazing amount of work around automation and QA. His blog is worth a read.
