What’s in This Book

This book is aimed at experienced application developers, data engineers, tech enthusiasts, and others who are seeking a well-rounded understanding of the modern database landscape. Prior database experience is not strictly required, but it helps.

After a brief introduction, this book tackles a series of seven databases chapter by chapter. The databases were chosen to span five different database genres or styles, which are discussed in Chapter 1, Introduction. In order, the databases covered are PostgreSQL, Apache HBase, MongoDB, Apache CouchDB, Neo4J, DynamoDB, and Redis.

Each chapter is designed to be taken as a long weekend’s worth of work, split up into three days. Each day ends with exercises that expand on the ...

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