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title: Book review - "Database Internals"
date: 2020-02-20
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lang: en
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I'm now reading the "Database Internals" book, by Alex Petrov. I'm liking it a
lot, and I have a similar feeling at the end of each chapter of when I was
reading "Designing Data-Intensive Applications": each chapter has some
references to other books, articles and resources, and I feel like I should go
and reach all of them to have a deeper understanding of the subject.

It gives just enough historical background in the text itself to show that the
author does have knowledge in this area.

# Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview

The covering of basic vocabulary (column vs wide-column) is very good and
straightforward, and the fundamental trade-offs are shown very clearly, like
in-memory and disk-based storage, primary-keys and offset lookups, etc.

Finishing this chapter I was happy with it's content and looking forward for a
more in-depth tour of many of the concepts presented here.