December 4, 2015 – Urbana – Champaign, Illinois

This course focuses on the technologies for Big Data management by introducing a suite of state-of-the-art distributed databases, specifically, MongoDB, Cassandra and Redis. In particular, we will discuss what distributed databases are, when and how to use them, and what are the key differences among them. We will showcase the functionalities of these distributed databases with a focus on their applications for geospatial Big Data. In addition, through the crafted hands-on sessions, participants will learn how these distributed database are deployed and configured in different computing environment, as well as how to work with the spatial databases, e.g. loading and querying the data. For more information, please visit http://illinois.edu/emailer/newsletter/83994.html.