Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/Compudicted/archive/2013/07/01/153309.aspx

As part of my ongoing self-education and approaching of some free time, yeah, both is a must for every IT person and geek! I have carefully examined the latest trends in the Computersphere with whatever tools I had at my disposal (nothing really fancy was used) and came to a conclusion that for a database pro the *hottest* topic today is undoubtedly the #BigData and all the rapidly growing and spawning ecosystem around it.
Having recently immersed myself into the NoSQL world (let me tell here right away NoSQL means Not Only SQL) one book really stood out of the crowd:


Book site: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025054.do

Despite being a new book I am sure it will end up on the tables of many Big Data Generalists.

In a few dozen words, it is primarily for two reasons:

1) The author understands that a  typical business today cannot wait for a Data Scientist for too long to deliver results demanding as usual a very quick turnaround on investments (ROI), and
2) The book covers all the needed and proven modern brick and mortar offerings to get the job done by a relatively newcomer to the Big Data World.

It certainly enables such a professional to grow and expand based on the acquired knowledge, and one can truly do it very fast.