Readings in Database Systems, 5th Ed.

Livro digital

Título:
Readings in Database Systems, 5th Ed.

Autor:
Peter Bailis, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Michael Stonebraker

Categoria:
Tecnologia > Dados

Doador:
Raffaello D. N.

Sinopse:
Database systems research is scattered across five decades of individual papers, which makes it hard to know where to start and even harder to know what still matters. This collection solves that by organizing the field into a sequence of twelve labeled sections, running from historical background and traditional RDBMS design through query optimization and interactive analytics, before closing with two sections the editors openly label "Biased Views on Moving Targets": complex analytics and data integration. Every section pairs a small set of canonical papers with a short commentary written by one of the three editors explaining why that specific reading earned its place over the many alternatives. The arc moves from foundational relational-database papers through the rise of post-MapReduce dataflow engines such as Hadoop and Spark, into weak isolation and distributed transactions, query optimization, and web-scale interactive analytics. A closing list of all readings and a full reference section point directly to the original papers rather than to secondhand summaries, so the reader always lands on the primary source. Released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license by Peter Bailis, Joseph M. Hellerstein, and Michael Stonebraker, this is less a textbook than three senior researchers arguing, in print, over which ideas actually shaped the field. It works as a self-guided syllabus for anyone who wants to understand not just what modern database systems do, but which decades-old design decisions keep resurfacing under new names.