Re: difference between thread based and process based operating systems?

Ryan wrote:

> Could you recommend a good database theory book? Im familiar with threads
> from java and the wait,notify,synchronize interprocess stuff. I know unix
> has pthreads which appear to do the same thing and Solaris has a C interface
> for Mutex locks that seem to be generic.
>
> Im in school, so preferably something academic that they might have in a
> university library. That way I dont have to pay for it... Im curious about
> OS theory.
>
> Thanks.

My gosh - all the stuff I have is ancient.

If you get right ito it, you will find that a database management system is truly nothing more than a special purpose operating system. 99% of the classics related to operating system design hold true for database theory. Over the years, we've surrounded the database field with a lot of mistique and lot of gobbledy-gook, but under the covers it's really very similar.

A number of the older theory books still hold true. My favorites are still:

(database)
The Theory of Database Concurrency Control - Christos Papadimitriou Database Step by Step - Mark L Gillenson Database - O'Neil & O'Neil (** exceptional)

(OSs)
Operating Systems: A Systematic View - William S. Davis Modern [sic] Operating Systems - Tanenbaum Operating Systems: Design and Implementation - Tanenbaum ... the last is the actual design for Minix, one of Linux' predecessors.

However, better than books are the IEEE transactions, any papers by Codd or CJ Date, and any back issues of the (sadly defunct) Database Programming and Design magazine. Received on Sat May 10 2003 - 16:06:57 CDT