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The topical overview certainly sounds interesting, but sounds extremely similar to Designing Data Intensive Applications which also covers modern DB internals.
by elamje 7y ago
The topical overview certainly sounds interesting, but sounds extremely similar to Designing Data Intensive Applications which also covers modern DB internals.
What’s the sell here?
- jolmg 7y agoThe preface is also available in the preview. It goes in further detail about the scope of the book. There's also the table of contents. I haven't seen the book you mentioned, so I can't comment on that.
- libraryofbabel 7y agoThere is some overlap, but they complement each other. This one (Database Internals) has much more of a technical deep dive on storage engines, especially B-tree implementation details. If I was mentoring someone learning this stuff, I'd advise reading Designing Data Intensive Applications first, which is certainly the best for giving the big picture, and follow up with this one for more detail on certain topics. Given the previous dearth of books on this important subject, I think it's wonderful that we have two.