num_pages: 376
description: When it comes to choosing using and maintaining a database understanding its internals is essential. But with so many distributed databases and tools available today its often difficult to understand what each one offers and how they differ. With this practical guide Alex Petrov guides developers through the concepts behind modern database and storage engine internals.Throughout the book youll explore relevant material gleaned from numerous books papers blog posts and the source code of several open source databases. These resources are listed at the end of parts one and two. Youll discover that the most significant distinctions among many modern databases reside in subsystems that determine how storage is organized and how data is distributed.This book examines:Storage engines: Explore storage classification and taxonomy and dive into B-Tree-based and immutable log structured storage engines with differences and use-cases for eachDistributed systems: Learn step-by-step how nodes and processes connect and build complex communication patterns from UDP to reliable consensus protocolsDatabase clusters: Discover how to achieve consistent models for replicated data
language: English
title: Database Internals: A deep-dive into how distributed data systems work
publisher: O'Reilly Media