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Ben Stopford, Royal Bank of Scotland

 Ben  Stopford
Ben Stopford is a specialist in compute and data grid technologies with experience at several investment banks and at Thoughtworks. He has a number of publications and speaking engagements to his name covering Software Process, Mock-Driven Development, Oracle Coherence and Distributed Data Management. He currently leads development of a prize-winning distributed data store at RBS.
You can find more about him at http://www.benstopford.com

Presentation: "Going Beyond The Data Grid: Coherence, Normalisation, Joins and Linear Scalability"

Time: Wednesday 14:05 - 15:05

Location: Westminster Suite, Fourth Floor

Abstract:
In 2009 RBS set out to build a single store of trade and risk data that all applications in the bank could use. This talk discusses a number of novel techniques that were developed as part of this work. Based on Oracle Coherence the ODC departs from the trend set by most caching solutions by holding its data in a normalised form making it both memory efficient and easy to change. However it does this in a novel way that supports most arbitrary queries without the usual problems associated with distributed joins. We'll be discussing these patterns as well as others that allow linear scalability, fault tolerance and millisecond latencies.