A new generation of databases is here and it's time to get serious about them. We've all spent a lot of time working around issues with eventual consistency in the name of horizontal scalability in MongoDB, Casandra, and CouchDB. But this new crop places a premium on transactions and ACID compliance while still being built on top of distributed system fundamentals so you'll be able to scale out as necessary.
In this session we'll talk about what sets these new databases apart from the old. You'll gain a basic understanding of the field, learning about Spanner, CockroachDB, CosmoDB, FoundationDB, and others. We'll consider when these databases might be a better choice than those you're used to and when you're better off sticking with the tried and true.