NodeJS is an evented I/O framework that allows JavaScript to be used for server-side web development. It uses the V8 JavaScript engine from Google Chrome. NoSQL databases like MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, and Neo4J can integrate well with NodeJS through packages like Mongoose, Riak.js, node-redis, and node-neo4j. This allows real-time applications to be built combining the speed and scalability of NodeJS with flexible data storage of NoSQL databases.

1. NodeJS + NoSQL
Shamod Lacoul
NoSQLNow 2011

2. whoami
CEO of Netoprise - we make social B2B Collaboration platform
NodeJS fan
Java coder
BPM integration consultant
Co-organizer of Silicon Valley Semantic Technology meetup

3. NodeJS: Server-side Javascript
Evented I/O framework
V8 javascript by Google

4. Node code
var http = require('http');
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
res.sendHeader(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
res.sendBody('Hello World!');
res.finish();
}).listen(8000);
console.log('Listening on port 8000');

5. MVC in NodeJS
ExpressJS - Sinatra-like (in Ruby on Rails) web framework
Jade - html template

6. Useful NodeJS Development Packages
Node Package Manager (npm) - package installer
Nodemon - auto-detection node watcher
Node-inspector - browser-based debugger
Vows.js - Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)

7. More useful packages
Backbone.js - provides models, collections and views to
Javascript
Underscore.js - utility library to add functional programming
to Javascript: "a tie to JQuery's tux"
Socket.io - a package to help make realtime apps
Find more at http://search.npmjs.org/

8. Benefits of NodeJS
Extremely fast
Event-driven
2 years old and already a huge community
Javascript all the way down

9. Pitfalls of Node
Boomerang-shaped code (solution: Step or Flow.js)
Javascript thinking-curve

10. Demo

11. NoSQL
* Document Database
* Key-Value Database
* Columnar Database
* Graph Database

12. Document DB - CouchDB/MongoDB

13. Key-Value Store - Riak/Redis

14. Column Store - Cassandra

15. Graph DB - Neo4J

16. Cradle = CouchDB + NodeJS
http://cloudhead.io/cradle

17. Mongoose = MongoDB + NodeJS
http://mongoosejs.com/

18. Riak.js = Riak + NodeJS
http://riakjs.org/

19. node_redis = Redis + NodeJS
https://github.com/mranney/node_redis

20. node-cassandra-client = Cassandra +
NodeJS
https://github.com/racker/node-cassandra-client

21. node-neo4j = Neo4J + NodeJS
https://github.com/bobby/node-neo4j

22. Questions?
Demo code:
https://github.com/shamod/nosqlnow2011demo
Thank you for listening!