Seven Databases in Seven Weeks, 2nd Edition

Day 3: Playing with Other Databases

Today we’re wrapping up our final database chapter by inviting some other databases from the book to the Redis party. Amongst the databases we’ve gone over in this book, Redis is the most lightweight and modular, capable of enhancing just about any complex data setup without imposing a ton of engineering and ops overhead. Redis will hold a starring role in today’s exercise by making our interaction with other databases faster and easier.

We’ve learned throughout this book that different databases have different strengths, so many modern systems have moved toward a polyglot persistence model, where many databases each play a role in the system. You will learn how to build one of these projects using CouchDB ...