I really enjoyed this book. I was unfamiliar with quite a lot of the material, so I can't really evaluate it in terms of other references. As an introduction, it's fantastic. Nice coverage of practical, modern tools. Theory stuff is covered at a high level, but with a ton of references for further study. The author is pretty opinionated about a lot of the more hype driven "web-scale" marketing claims. I really appreciated that, as there's typically some kernel of truth behind the marketing fluff, and Kleppman brings these out with moderation and context.
Great book if you'd like to finally understand Jepsen.io articles.
Came here to say the same thing. If you want to develop an intuition about when and why to use different data technologies this is the book for you. Each chapter is relatively self contained, so you don't have to read the whole thing to benefit from it.
Great book if you'd like to finally understand Jepsen.io articles.