I highly recommend it. It does a very good job at explaining the "magic" behind all the data storage techniques, giving you a very good fundamentals and intuition of why each of them are good for certain kind of problems.
After reading the book, googling for something like "mongodb v.s. cassandra" would start to feel as silly as googling for something like "javascript v.s. css" as you start to understand the fundamental differences between them.
No more need to hope the vague Medium post you found while trying to decide which DB to use would match your use case closely enough.
After reading the book, googling for something like "mongodb v.s. cassandra" would start to feel as silly as googling for something like "javascript v.s. css" as you start to understand the fundamental differences between them.
No more need to hope the vague Medium post you found while trying to decide which DB to use would match your use case closely enough.