Painless Polyglot Persistence By @IBMCloud | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]

When it comes to building applications, one database definitely does not fit all. Traditional SQL databases are great for storing highly structured, normalized data and performing analytics and reporting. NoSQL has attracted developers with its awesome flexibility, and JSON-centric document stores like Cloudant make web developers incredibly productive by offering a JavaScript environment from end-to-end. Recent Big Data challenges have driven the need for a distributed approach to analytics employing MapReduce techniques embodied in software like Hadoop and Spark. So it's natural that a well-integrated hybrid environment comprised of multiple types of databases and information access paradigms is critical to meeting the business challenges of tomorrow. In his session at 16th Cloud Expo, Raj Singh, Developer Advocate at IBM Cloud Data Services, will walk through a mobile app powered by a Cloudant NoSQL database that relies on dashDB for analytics and reporting of Twitter data from IBM's Social Analytics service.

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