Well, for what it's worth, I've just had a very quick look at SimpleDB, and it does have a buffer manager after all (in simpledb.buffer). I am glad about this,

Well, for what it's worth, I've just had a very quick look at SimpleDB, and it does have a buffer manager after all (in simpledb.buffer). I am glad about this, it is looking more and more interesting to me, and I am more and more inclined to following this approach. Also, the course notes I alluded to above are looking like a good substitute for the book, because they also seem to discuss the source code in great detail, as mentioned in other comments. The MIT OCW SimpleDB seems different from Sciore's though, simpler, but is also in Java, I wonder whether they have adapted it or whether it is entirely different system. Sciore's old db course, might help figure out how much material to pack into a terms-worth of learning, but the notes aren't there, you will find then in the internet if you know where to look :) https://web.archive.org/web/20081028011620/http://www.cs.bc.edu/~sciore/courses/cs357/ https://web.archive.org/web/20081028011620/http://www.cs.bc....