Cloudant’s own Brad Anderson is helping to organize No:SQL (east), a conference centered around the latest nonrelational database systems. The conference will be held at the Georgia Tech Research Institute in Atlanta on October 28–30. The description from the website reads:

NoSQL East, a conference of non-relational data stores, aims to present the experiences of different companies using so-called ‘NoSQL’ solutions in production.

The reasons for using these new systems are varied, but often involve scale that relational solutions cannot achieve. We have a new tool in our toolbelts, and as you will see, some people are using them quite effectively.

Join us in Atlanta as we discuss ‘Big Data’ and the systems that are completely transforming how people look at data.

The organizers have a great venue picked out (courtesy of Georgia Tech) and an exciting group of speakers. A number of nonrelational systems will be covered, and Cloudant co-founder Mike Miller will be giving a talk on CouchDB. Anyone interested in the NoSQL space should really try to make it down to Atlanta to attend.

Cloudant is one of two primary sponsors of the event, the other being GTRI. Many, if not all, of us will be attending the conference. We’re always happy to talk about NoSQL, CouchDB, JQuery, The Bears winning the Superbowl, etc. You should come say hi.

More information about No:SQL (east) can be found at nosqleast.com. Check it out.

Update (10/22/09): Since posting the above, a couple other great companies, including Basho and Rackspace Cloud, have also joined on as sponsors for the event.