Alvaro Hernandez
CTO at 8Kdata
Álvaro is a 37 year-old IT entrepreneur, based in Madrid, Spain. Founder and CTO at 8Kdata (www.8kdata.com), a database R&D company, he spends most of his time working on the ToroDB (www.torodb.com) project, the first NoSQL-on-SQL database, a MongoDB-compatible database that runs on top of PostgreSQL.
He is a passionate software developer and open source advocate. Álvaro is a Java software developer, member of JavaSpecialists.eu, but also a DBA, trainer and frequent speaker at international database conferences. He also founded the PostgreSQL Spanish User Group (www.postgrespaña.es), one of the largest PUGs in the world, with more than 700 members.
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MongoDB is a successful database in the NoSQL space, mostly used for OLTP-type workloads. However, due to the lack of ACID (transactions in particular) and significant performance issues with OLAP/DW workloads, more and more MongoDB users are considering migrating off of MongoDB to a RDBMS, where PostgreSQL is the usual choice. This represents a significant opportunity for the PostgreSQL ecosys...
Java is the most used programming language in the world. Yet how is it supported in PostgreSQL? What are the gotchas and the best practices? Now that Java is evolving significantly, how will PostgreSQL follow? Despite Java's age, language is stronger than ever. It's the de facto programming language in the enterprise world. And since Java 8, it is having a come back in the startup and open sour...
ToroDB is a document oriented, Mongo-compatible, open-source database built on top of PostgreSQL. Why all NoSQL databases are doing everything from scratch? Concurrency, durability, journaling... all those are quite tough goals to achieve. Aren't RDBMs good enough? We think they are, specially PostgreSQL. So we built ToroDB, a new “NoSQL” database, that speaks JSON, and uses PostgreSQL as the “...