Normally in a document database such as CouchDB or BigCouch, data is queried using b-tree indexes built with map-reduce functions.
In his session at 14th Cloud Expo, Brad Bonn, Systems Engineer at Cloudant, will discuss how Cloudant has extended the platform to natively take advantage of Lucene and R*-Tree indexes to make obtaining data out of NoSQL DBaaS more powerful and flexible.
Brad Bonn is a Systems Engineer at Cloudant.