<p style="margin:0px">The Easy, Common-Sense Guide to Solving Real Problems with NoSQL</p><p style="margin:0px"></p><p style="margin:0px">The<i> Mere Mortals</i> <i>®</i> tutorials have earned worldwide praise as the clearest, simplest way to master essential database technologies. Now, there’s one for today’s exciting new NoSQL databases.<i>NoSQL for Mere Mortals</i> guides you through solving real problems with NoSQL and achieving unprecedented scalability, cost efficiency, flexibility, and availability.</p><p style="margin:0px"></p><p style="margin:0px">Drawing on 20&#43; years of cutting-edge database experience, Dan Sullivan explains the advantages, use cases, and terminology associated with all four main categories of NoSQL databases: key-value, document, column family, and graph databases. For each, he introduces pragmatic best practices for building high-value applications. Through step-by-step examples, you’ll discover how to choose the right database for each task, and use it the right way.</p><p style="margin:0px"></p><p style="margin:0px">Coverage includes</p><p style="margin:0px"></p><p style="margin:0px">--Getting started: What NoSQL databases are, how they differ from relational databases, when to use them, and when<i>not</i> to Data management principles and design criteria: Essential knowledge for creating any database solution, NoSQL or relational</p><p style="margin:0px">--Key-value databases: Gaining more utility from data structures</p><p style="margin:0px">--Document databases: Schemaless databases, normalization and denormalization, mutable documents, indexing, and design patterns</p><p style="margin:0px">--Column family databases: Google’s BigTable design, table design, indexing, partitioning, and Big Data</p><p style="margin:0px"></p><p style="margin:0px">Graph databases: Graph/network modeling, design tips, query methods, and traps to avoid</p><p style="margin:0px"></p><p style="margin:0px">Whether you’re a database developer, data modeler, database user, or student, learning NoSQL can open up immense new opportunities. As thousands of database professionals already know,<i>For Mere Mortals</i> is the fastest, easiest route to mastery.</p><p style="margin:0px"></p>