This needs a [2015] tag.
The thing that makes the redbook special in my opinion is that the editors have been able to apply their research to solve actual problems for paying customers! You don't get to see enough of that in academia.
The thing that makes the redbook special in my opinion is that the editors have been able to apply their research to solve actual problems for paying customers! You don't get to see enough of that in academia.
That's debatable. It's a book, not a blog post.
Its an interesting book in that 2015 was in the middle of the noSQL hype. Since then, people have started looking for results and being more critical.
There's a gazillion technologies that we could list that are newer, and claims that any of them are the next big thing and will fundamentally change everything are, obviously, exaggerated.
[1] Concept-oriented model: Modeling and processing data using functions: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337336089_Concept-o...
(Disclaimer: I am the author)