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Joseph M. Hellerstein, Michael Stonebraker · 3 HN comments

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The latest edition of a popular text and reference on database research, with substantial new material and revision; covers classical literature and recent hot topics. Lessons from database research have been applied in academic fields ranging from bioinformatics to next-generation Internet architecture and in industrial uses including Web-based e-commerce and search engines. The core ideas in the field have become increasingly influential. This text provides both students and professionals with a grounding in database research and a technical context for understanding recent innovations in the field. The readings included treat the most important issues in the database area―the basic material for any DBMS professional. This fourth edition has been substantially updated and revised, with 21 of the 48 papers new to the edition, four of them published for the first time. Many of the sections have been newly organized, and each section includes a new or substantially revised introduction that discusses the context, motivation, and controversies in a particular area, placing it in the broader perspective of database research. Two introductory articles, never before published, provide an organized, current introduction to basic knowledge of the field; one discusses the history of data models and query languages and the other offers an architectural overview of a database system. The remaining articles range from the classical literature on database research to treatments of current hot topics, including a paper on search engine architecture and a paper on application servers, both written expressly for this edition. The result is a collection of papers that are seminal and also accessible to a reader who has a basic familiarity with database systems.

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Aug 17, 2018 · joejerryronnie on How to Hire

Readings in Database Systems by Joseph Hellerstein and Michael Stonebraker
https://www.amazon.com/Readings-Database-Systems-Joseph-Hell...

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Mar 25, 2015 · reinhardt1053 on Michael Stonebraker wins Turing Award

His book "Readings in Database Systems" 4th edition http://www.amazon.com/Readings-Database-Systems-Joseph-Helle...

⬐ fsaintjacques
This course reading contains a lot of information too: http://www.cs286.net/home/reading-list

⬐ turingbook
The link can not be opened. Any mistake?

⬐ binarymax
Keep in mind this book is really just a large collection of core papers. If you are looking for something more structured as a how-to of developing DBs this is useful as a reference but not the best introduction.

⬐ nimrody
Could you recommend something more appropriate for someone who would like to explore the world of database implementations?

⬐ neilc
"Architecture of Database Systems" by Hellerstein, Stonebraker, and Hamilton is a pretty good starting place: http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/fntdb07-architecture.pdf

⬐ nextos
I like Silberchatz et al. Pretty rigorous but practical:
http://codex.cs.yale.edu/avi/db-book/db6/slide-dir/

⬐ AlisdairO
For an overview of basic concepts in DB implementation, I quite like Database Systems: The Complete Book (By Widom I think...). You could do a lot worse than An Introduction to Database Systems (CJ Date), although many dislike his opinionated style :-).
If you're talking about actually implementing a full transactional database system, strong foundational books are:
Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques (Gray and Reuter)
Transactional Information Systems: Theory, Algorithms, and the Practice of Concurrency Control and Recovery (Vossen and Weikum)
Neither are exactly easy reading, but the concepts therein are really important.

⬐ timtadh
+1 on all of those books. If you are interested in multi-dimensional indices (R-Trees, M-Trees, and many more exotic ones). You should checkout "Foundations of Multidimensional and Metric Data Structures" by Hanan Samet. Very comprehensive! "Database Systems: The Complete Book" is fantastic (pick up the previous version it is cheaper!) but it only touches on multidimensional indexing.
Also if you are interested in B-Trees start with "The Ubiquitous B-Tree" by Comer. [ http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/356770.356776 ].

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May 12, 2009 · CalmQuiet on Readings in Database Systems (the red book)

Actually 4th edition (2005, 877pp) link at amz is: http://www.amazon.com/Readings-Database-Systems-Joseph-Helle...
Doesn't seem to be selling like Harry Potter. ...and must be considered a text book, since Amz is only allowing 10% off the $60 cover price.

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