Thing that makes life just grand of the day: seven databases in song

Luc Perkins

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dr-luc-perkins/22/7b3/a08

It’s not like me to do a post where I just share something that has come to my attention and provide little side commentary, but I have to make an exception for this:

The song is a companion to the recently-released “Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement,” by Eric Redmond and Jim Wilson. It gives you a quick–and I mean quick–rundown of seven so-called NoSQL database systems: Neo4J, Postgres, HBase, Redis, CouchDB, Mongo, and Riak (to borrow from the order of the song).

It’s currently available for purchase as a paper book or as an ebook at The Pragmatic Bookshelf. As usual, there are free excerpts of pretty significant parts of the book as well.

The video is just an absolute gem, and if the video is any indication, the book will be a gem too.

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Jim Wilson

Thanks for the write-up! Glad you liked it
Luc Perkins

Well, thanks for an awesome book! Just ordered it today and have loved the sections I’ve read for free online so far. I met your co-author last weekend. Great guy. I presume you’re also PDX-based?
http://trephine.org/t/index.php?title=Home jimbojw

Actually, I’m about as far away as possible and still be in the continental US. I’m based out of Boston
Luc Perkins

Well, nobody’s perfect. I hear there are some okay schools out there, though.
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