Eric Redmond has been involved the software industry and open source worlds for over a decade, working as lead engineer/DBA with Fortune 500 companies, governments and startups. He was a contributor to two Java books and considerably more articles, and is a popular speaker and active organizer/occupant of several technology groups. He currently resides in Portland with wife Noelle, toys with inviite.com and makes things out of glass. Jim R. Wilson started hacking at the age of 13 and never looked back. He has worked as an engineer and web guru at companies in the healthcare, search and marketing sectors. He began tinkering with Non-SQL databases in 2007, and has contributed code to large-scale open source projects like MediaWiki and HBase. A frequent speaker at local JavaScript and NoSQL events, he lives in Littleton, MA with his incredible wife Ruth, and two amazing children.
""The flow is perfect. On Friday, you'll be up and running with a
new database. On Saturday, you'll see what it's like under daily
use. By Sunday, you'll have learned a few tricks that might even
surprise the experts! And next week, you'll vault to another
database and have fun all over again."" --Ian Dees Coauthor, "Using
JRuby"
""Provides a great overview of several key databases that will
multiply your data modeling options and skills. Read if you want
database envy seven times in a row."" --Sean Copenhaver, Lead Code
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""This is by far the best substantive overview of modern databases.
Unlike the host of tutorials, blog posts, and documentation I have
read, this book taught me why I would want to use each type of
database and the ways in which I can use them in a way that made me
easily understand and retain the information. It was a pleasure to
read."" --Loren Sands-Ramshaw, Software Engineer U.S. Department of
Defense
The flow is perfect. On Friday, you'll be up and running with a new
database. On Saturday, you'll see what it's like under daily use.
By Sunday, you'll have learned a few tricks that might even
surprise the experts! And next week, you'll vault to another
database and have fun all over again.--Ian Dees Coauthor, "Using
JRuby"
Provides a great overview of several key databases that will
multiply your data modeling options and skills. Read if you want
database envy seven times in a row.--Sean Copenhaver Lead Code
Commodore backgroundchecks.com
This is by far the best substantive overview of modern databases.
Unlike the host of tutorials, blog posts, and documentation I have
read, this book taught me why I would want to use each type of
database and the ways in which I can use them in a way that made me
easily understand and retain the information. It was a pleasure to
read.--Loren Sands-Ramshaw Software Engineer U.S. Department of
Defense
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