Is there a transcript for this?

I can summarize. Mostly just people making snarky comments about opposing products. The guy from CouchDB is particularly annoying. Apparently he feels like he has to raise his voice and cut people off to defend his product.

One the other hand, the discussion is punctuated with the audience yelling "Louder!" and "We can't hear you!" on top of a lot of background noise (including various interruptions from the audience). I got the sense you almost had to be loud and aggressive to be heard. It got kind of stressful to listen to.

Haha thanks :) — It was great fun on stage. I don't think you can judge the whole thing from the audio, but that's just me cutting you off I guess ;)

Yea this whole talk really didn't help my perception of these products' developers at all.

Here are my notes and comments: http://nosql.mypopescu.com/post/459029585/nosql-smackdown-at...

Listening to this, I'm struck by how wimpy and tame all the journalism/media panels were by comparison. We need to raise our game!

The guys on this podcast mapped it out at the SXSW table I was sitting at over lunch. It seemed pretty clear to me there was going to be some spirited arguing when they got down to it.

this was really great to see/hear these guys duking it out. props to @pengwynn for holding it down for mongodb against the big boys.

Agreed, @pengwynn did a great job!

If it doesn't have a theme song, it ain't NoSQL!

I hear you have to have a dance too?