For an interesting overview of the current landscape in database development, checkout this awesome interview[0] featuring Michael Stonebraker (one of the co-authors of this book). Hands down my favorite podcast episode!<p>[0] - <a href="http://www.se-radio.net/2013/12/episode-199-michael-stonebraker/" rel="nofollow">http://www.se-radio.net/2013/12/episode-199-michael-stonebra...</a>
Stonebraker recently gave a talk at my school on where he thinks databases are headed in the future[0]. Definitely worth a watch.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRcecxdGxvQ&feature=youtu.be" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRcecxdGxvQ&feature=youtu.be</a>
<a href="http://www.dbms2.com/2008/02/16/stonebraker-database-taxonomy/" rel="nofollow">http://www.dbms2.com/2008/02/16/stonebraker-database-taxonom...</a>, from 2008, may provide some historical context.<p>Anyhow, I saw this only after hitting my alcohol tolerance for the night, so I haven't made it all the way through on a first read. That said:<p>1. Mike writes confusingly about MapReduce. In one place he calls it a "data model". That's wildly incorrect. In another he says that Hadoop was introduced as a MapReduce clone. That's a more minor error, mainly in product naming.<p>2. Mike also oversells the success to date of columnar analytic RDBMS. That said, he's at least directionally correct. But Oracle and Teradata (specifically in its classical row-based mode) aren't dead yet.<p>3. I think Mike slightly misinterprets what's going on with SparkSQL. It's not directly in the analytic RDBMS category, and those who try to use it as such often give up. Rather, there are data processing pipelines, and SQL is used in certain necessary and high-volume steps.
Awesome, this is also a good read on databases: <a href="http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/fntdb07-architecture.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/fntdb07-architecture.pdf</a>
I went through Sciore's book [0] while learning about relational database internals. As part of his book, the author also developed a minimal database system named SimpleDB [1] in Java. I can safely say that its source code is very easy to understand. Though the book is not free, SimpleDB is.<p>[0]: <a href="http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-EHEP000711.html" rel="nofollow">http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-EHEP000711...</a><p>[1]: <a href="http://www.cs.bc.edu/~sciore/simpledb/intro.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cs.bc.edu/~sciore/simpledb/intro.html</a>
OT<p>My father introduced me to Jung's Red Book [1] many years ago; it is a truly fascinating psychology book.<p>[1]<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Book_(Jung)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Book_(Jung)</a>
Now in EPUB and kindle, too. <a href="https://unglue.it/work/153041/" rel="nofollow">https://unglue.it/work/153041/</a>
I love people who provide free scientific material for college student (or overall everybody). I am in religious country and I am ex-Muslim . In my perspective , if I were to choose prophet for humanity , I would choose people who educate people (or provide education material -books , papers, etc- for people) freely .<p>p.s. no offence . I am not saying people who selling their books are bad guys, not at all . I am just saying people who provide free material in my opinion are doing something incredible to humanity .<p><i>update</i> : When I am saying "educate people* , I absolutely mean science.