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Great book with the same title: https://pragprog.com/book/rwdata/seven-databases-in-seven-weeks https://pragprog.com/book/rwdata/seven-databases-in-seven-we...

Great book with the same title: https://pragprog.com/book/rwdata/seven-databases-in-seven-weeks https://pragprog.com/book/rwdata/seven-databases-in-seven-we... Explains different approaches / benefits and drawbacks

chauhankiran 8y ago
Its look like publisher has whole series on "Seven X in Seven Weeks"
- billfruit 8y ago
  The Seven Concurrency Models book is especially interesting.
smoyer 8y ago
That's the older edition of the book which covered Redis, Neo4J, CouchDB, MongoDB, HBase, Riak and Postgres. At the time this was published I was already using CouchDB, Redis and PostgreSQL so we bought a (small) crate of these for my new department's employees. The new edition can be found at https://amzn.to/2KpxOqU https://amzn.to/2KpxOqU and covers Redis, Neo4J, CouchDB, MongoDB, HBase, Postgres, and DynamoDB. I think the most interesting thing about the new edition is that it drops Riak in favor of DynamoDB. They're both K/V stores but trading an open source database for a DBaaS shows me how entrenched the Amazon ecosystem has become in the last 5 years. Interestingly, one of the authors answers the question of how they chose which databases to cover with "We did have some criteria, if not explicit. The databases had to be open source—we didn’t want to cover any databases that would tie readers to a company." I guess that's not a strong part of the criteria? I guess a database experimenter could still complete the book's exercises using Amazon's free tier?
- grimjack00 8y ago
  Or, the bit of how they chose the databases was left over from the first edition, and missed in editing the new one.
  - jerrysievert 8y ago
    second edition editing seemed pretty laser focused on the chapter changes, with specific editors focused on specific databases whereas first edition seemed a bit more cohesive with editors focused on the book as a whole.

chauhankiran 8y ago

Its look like publisher has whole series on "Seven X in Seven Weeks"

billfruit 8y ago
The Seven Concurrency Models book is especially interesting.

smoyer 8y ago

That's the older edition of the book which covered Redis, Neo4J, CouchDB, MongoDB, HBase, Riak and Postgres. At the time this was published I was already using CouchDB, Redis and PostgreSQL so we bought a (small) crate of these for my new department's employees. The new edition can be found at https://amzn.to/2KpxOqU https://amzn.to/2KpxOqU and covers Redis, Neo4J, CouchDB, MongoDB, HBase, Postgres, and DynamoDB. I think the most interesting thing about the new edition is that it drops Riak in favor of DynamoDB. They're both K/V stores but trading an open source database for a DBaaS shows me how entrenched the Amazon ecosystem has become in the last 5 years. Interestingly, one of the authors answers the question of how they chose which databases to cover with "We did have some criteria, if not explicit. The databases had to be open source—we didn’t want to cover any databases that would tie readers to a company." I guess that's not a strong part of the criteria? I guess a database experimenter could still complete the book's exercises using Amazon's free tier?

grimjack00 8y ago
Or, the bit of how they chose the databases was left over from the first edition, and missed in editing the new one.
- jerrysievert 8y ago
  second edition editing seemed pretty laser focused on the chapter changes, with specific editors focused on specific databases whereas first edition seemed a bit more cohesive with editors focused on the book as a whole.