在这本实用而全面的指南中，作者Martin Kleppmann通过研究处理和存储数据的各种技术的优缺点，帮助读者驾驭这种多样化的环境。软件不断变化，但基本原则保持不变。通过本书，软件工程师和架构师将学习如何在实践中应用这些想法，以及如何在现代应用程序中充分利用数据。 学会如何更有效地使用和操作现有系统，如何通过识别不同工具的优缺点做出明智的决策。

Preface If you have worked in software engineering in recent years, especially in server-side and backend systems, you have probably been bombarded with a plethora of buzzwords relating to storage and processing of data. NoSQL! Big Data! Web-scale! Sharding! Eventual consistency! ACID! CAP theorem! Cloud services! MapReduce! Real-time! In the last decade we have seen many interesting developments in databases, in distributed systems, and in the ways we build applications on top of them. There are various driving forces for these developments: ???Internet companies such as Google, Yahoo!, Amazon, Facebook, LinkedIn, Microsoft, and Twitter are handling huge volumes of data and tra...