Книга познакомит вас с семью базами: Redis, Neo4J, CouchDB, MongoDB, HBase, Riak and Postgres. Обратите внимание: для полноценного освоения вам потребуется *nix shell и Java/Ruby.
Цитируем:
«To get the most of of this book you'll have to follow along, and that means you'll need a *nix shell (Mac OSX or Linux preferred, Windows users will need Cygwin), and Java 6 (or greater) and Ruby 1.8.7 (or greater). Each chapter will list the downloads required for that database».