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Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement

Eric Redmond,

Jim R. Wilson

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Why we're reading this: Good overall description of "NoSQL" technologies - although the author includes RDBMS options as well. …more
[close] Good overall description of "NoSQL" technologies - although the author includes RDBMS options as well.

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Feb 14, 2013 Cecilia rated it it was amazing

Really useful introduction to seven popular database systems, from the familiar relational database by way of PostgreSQL through to key-value system, document-oriented database and graph database. The idea of the book is to set up seven databases through seven weekends to grasp the basic and benefits of each database systems. Admittedly I didn't do the tutorials and instead skimmed through the book in a weekend, but I found the material invaluable in getting my knowledge up to scratch, as I toy ...more

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