> RDBMS design is relatively new in the long view > of the art of Computer Science. > The commercial vendors that pay thousands of people fulltime to develop > them still don't have it down correctly. It's > certainly not progressed to the point where it's textbook knowledge, > where any fresh-faced CS grad can get in there and build one.
True enough, but there is at least one outstanding textbook that explains lucidly and in considerable detail just how it is done. Anyone serious about DB engine development should have a copy of
"Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques" by Jim Gray and Andreas Reuter. ISBN 1-55860-190-2.
This book essentially gives away the whole candystore, modulo a few proprietary wrinkles and kinks.
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> RDBMS design is relatively new in the long view > of the art of Computer Science.
> The commercial vendors that pay thousands of people fulltime to develop
> them still don't have it down correctly. It's
> certainly not progressed to the point where it's textbook knowledge,
> where any fresh-faced CS grad can get in there and build one.
True enough, but there is at least one outstanding textbook that explains lucidly and in considerable detail just how it is done. Anyone serious about DB engine development should have a copy of
"Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques"
by Jim Gray and Andreas Reuter. ISBN 1-55860-190-2.
This book essentially gives away the whole candystore, modulo a few proprietary wrinkles and kinks.
-dg