Attended the Big Data DC meetup this evening. The meeting was surprisingly conveniently located for me and I enjoyed both speakers, even though I only had surface knowledge of the night’s topic. The presentations were focused on the Cassandra NoSQL data store. We got an overview of the fresh off the press Cassandra 1.0 release, and some insights into the CQL query language for Cassandra.
Didn’t mind the dive into infrastructure, but I’m more of a straight-up data and analytics guy. Looking forward to more Big Data DC meetups though.