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Database Internals - A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work

Alex Petrov

Software Engineering

Summary

Key Facts and Insights from the Book:

  1. Distributed Systems: The book provides a comprehensive understanding of distributed systems, their structure, and how they function.
  2. Storage Engines: It deeply explores various database storage engines, their optimization, and how data is retrieved from them.
  3. Database Indexing: It explains the concept of database indexing, its importance and various types of indexing techniques.
  4. Concurrency Control: The book delves into concurrency control mechanisms and how they prevent conflicts in a distributed database system.
  5. Log Structured Merge Trees: It introduces Log Structured Merge Trees (LSM Trees) as an important data structure in distributed systems.
  6. Replication...

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