Pramod J. Sadalage
Author of NoSQL Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Emerging World of Polyglot Persistence
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Pramod J. Sadalage, Principal Consultant at Thought Works, enjoys the rare role of bridging the divide between database professionals and application developers. He regularly consults with clients who have particularly challenging data needs requiring new technologies and techniques. He developed show more pioneering techniques that allowed relational databases to be designed in an evolutionary manner based on version-controlled schema migrations. With Scott Ambler, he coauthored Refactoring Databases (Addison-Wesley, 2006). Martin Fowler, Chief Scientist at Thought Works, focuses on better ways to design software systems and improve developer productivity. His books include Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture; UML Distilled, Third Edition; Domain-Specific Languages (with Rebecca Parsons); and Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (with Kent Beck, John Brant, and William Opdyke). All are published by Addison-Wesley. show less
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For developers, an excellent overview and primer of the new database types. Although I think that one needs a good understanding of numerous technology-related topics, this is a fairly light introduction covering the NoSQL incarnations.
This book is a concise and approachable look at relational and NoSql data stores. It does a great job of presenting the the underlying concepts and discussing the trade offs without overwhelming you with too much academic jargon or internet buzz words. I wish I had this intro years ago to save me countless hours of searching the web and trial and error.
Good book to go from "What the hell is NoSQL" to "Oh. I get it. That makes sense". Indeed, in many ways all programmers are dealing with NoSQL at the Business Level. The goal of NoSQL databases is to smooth the transition to persistence.
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Though an introductory book, it does touch upon some architectural concepts like map-reduce and optimistic and pessimistic concurrency. There are sections that explain on replication and sharding of your data distribution. This book also offers a great illustration of CAP theorem.
Reading this book allowed me to come up with this: No SQL databases work without a schema, while NoSQL databases work without a schema - just some word play there!… (more)