Readings in Database Systems (5th Edition) (2015)

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142 points | by teleforce 1 day ago

8 comments

  • vvern 8 hours ago
    About time for the 6th Edition, eh? What would folks include in it?

    - Vector databases and hybrid search?

    - Object storage for all the things? Lake houses. Parquet and beyond.

    - Continuously materialized views? I'm not sure this one has made the splash but I think about Naiad (Materialize) and Noria (Readyset)

    - NewSQL went mostly mainstream (Spanner wasn't included in the last one, but there's been more here with things like CockroachDB, TiDB, etc)

    • kwillets 7 hours ago
      The object storage stuff is new, but it's mostly confirmed that the older architecture works. MPP with shared (S3) storage and everything above that on local SSD and compute delivers the best performance. Even Snowflake finally came out with "interactive" warehouses with this architecture.

      Parquet, Iceberg, and other open formats seem good, but they may hit a complexity wall. There's already some inconsistency between platforms, eg with delete vectors.

      Incremental view maintenance interests me as well, and I would like to see it more available on different platforms. It's ironic that people use dbt etc. to test every little edit of their manually coded delta pipelines, but don't look at IVM.

    • B1FF_PSUVM 8 hours ago
      LLMs as DBs (if you squint hard enough)
  • gnabgib 1 day ago
    (2015) Popular in:

    2020 (225 points, 30 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15436647

    2017 (247 points, 44 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15436647

    2015 (189 points, 37 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10694538

  • WalterGR 21 hours ago
    Before spidering the site for offline reading, be aware:

    “Rather than secure rights to the recommended papers, we have simply provided links to Google Scholar searches that should help the reader locate the relevant papers.”

    • sam_lowry_ 17 hours ago
      Why not to Scihub?
      • xpe 11 hours ago
        Sci-Hub rules:

            1. You do not talk about Sci-Hub.
            2. You do NOT talk about Sci-Hub.
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               or taps out, that download is over. 
            4. Only two tries per mirror. 
            5. One download at a time. 
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            7. Downloads will continue until publicly funded
               research is widely distributed. 
            8. If this is your first time at Sci-Hub, you
               have to download something interesting,
               actually read at least part of it, learn
               something, and then fight ignorance and/or
               stupidity with it.
    • nine_k 19 hours ago
      A perfect task for an AI agent, BTW.
  • rodolphoarruda 7 hours ago
    Amazing: the website's index page has the book's index in it. While this makes perfect sense, it's a kind of a feature that is becoming rare in today's tech book websites which display all sorts of marketing fluff, social confirmations etc and not the structure of the book itself.
  • zingar 16 hours ago
    How does this stack up in 2025/6?
  • ctxc 19 hours ago
    • nrhrjrjrjtntbt 17 hours ago
      Peek:

      Readings in Database Systems (commonly known as the "Red Book") has offered readers an opinionated take on both classic and cutting-edge research in the field of data management since 1988. Here, we present the Fifth Edition of the Red Book — the first in over ten years. CHAPTERS Preface [HTML] [PDF] Background introduced by Michael Stonebraker [HTML] [PDF] Traditional RDBMS Systems introduced by Michael Stonebraker [HTML] [PDF] Techniques Everyone Should Know introduced by Peter Bailis [HTML] [PDF] New DBMS Architectures introduced by Michael Stonebraker [HTML] [PDF] Large-Scale Dataflow Engines introduced by Peter Bailis [HTML] [PDF] Weak Isolation and Distribution introduced by Peter Bailis [HTML] [PDF] Query Optimization introduced by Joe Hellerstein [HTML] [PDF] Interactive Analytics introduced by Joe Hellerstein [HTML] [PDF] Languages introduced by Joe Hellerstein [HTML] [PDF] Web Data introduced by Peter Bailis [HTML] [PDF] A Biased Take on a Moving Target: Complex Analytics by Michael Stonebraker [HTML] [PDF] A Biased Take on a Moving Target: Data Integration by Michael Stonebraker [HTML] [PDF] Complete Book: [HTML] [PDF] Readings Only: [HTML] [PDF] Previous Editions: [HTML]

    • testdelacc1 18 hours ago
      Wonder why. Did they confuse this with Maoist literature (Little Red Book)?
      • ctxc 17 hours ago
        Hmm maybe, a blooper on their part

        I just switched networks (wifi/mobile) and it worked, only that provider seems to block it

  • herodoturtle 13 hours ago
    redbook.io huh?

    Some might argue the Red Book to be “NSA Trusted Networks” a.k.a the ugly red book that won't fit on the shelf.

    Crash & Burn <3