Re: Database internals...

From: Alfredo Novoa <alfredo_at_ncs.es>
Date: 24 Oct 2003 01:51:18 -0700
Message-ID: <e4330f45.0310240051.6904dec1@posting.google.com>

"Mikito Harakiri" <mikharakiri_at_iahu.com> wrote in message news:<kSXlb.27$xI.174_at_news.oracle.com>...
> "rk" <please_at_no.email> wrote in message news:1066943119.33459_at_cache1...
> > I am looking for information on the web pertaining to relational database
> > system internals. Preferably explaining an implementation of page, record,
> > index, etc. structures in memory and on disk. Anyone know of some web
> > resources I could take a look at?
>
> Garcia-Molina&Ullman&Widom Database is quite good describing the basics.
> Also search for Ph.D thesis at citeseer that describe particular systems.
> Example: Monet RDBMS Kernel by Peter Alexander Boncz.

And if you want to know a new approach that makes all of this obsolete, you might read the Appendix A from Date's "Introduction to Database Systems" 8 ed, or to wait for his next book: "Go Faster! The TransRelational(TM) Approach to DBMS Implementation".

Regards
Alfredo Received on Fri Oct 24 2003 - 03:51:18 CDT