Database Design and Implementation by Edward Sciore implements a fully working relational database from buffer manager up to parser and beyond. It's very much

Database Design and Implementation by Edward Sciore implements a fully working relational database from buffer manager up to parser and beyond. It's very much in the spirit of Tanenbaum's OS book. Here's the landing page for the book's implementation: http://www.cs.bc.edu/~sciore/simpledb/intro.html http://www.cs.bc.edu/~sciore/simpledb/intro.html Unfortunately, I don't think the book is in print anymore.