Transactional information systems
by Gerhard Weikum · first published 2001
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…opinionated style :-). If you're talking about actually implementing a full transactional database system, strong foundational books are: Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques (Gray and Reuter) Transactional Information Systems: Theory, Algorithms, and the Practice of Concurrency Control and Recovery (Vossen and Weikum) Neither are exactly easy reading, but the concepts therein are really important.
on “Michael Stonebraker wins Turing Award” ↗Mine are Statistical Inference in Computer Age, and Transactional Information Systems. Curious what other books teach us powerful concepts and tools that carry us a long way
on “Ask HN: What are the best tech books you read in 2021?” ↗…but I see you also have just snapshot isolation - what is the difference? Edit: oh brother, the proof you link to, I just realized I bought that book some time ago and never got around to reading it... Transactional Information Systems by Weikum & Vossen, right? time for me to hit the books I guess. Still trying to get my head around that second graph you have drawn, can't work out how you have gotten it :(
on “Serializable, Lockless, Distributed: Isolation in CockroachDB” ↗Transactional Information Systems: Theory, Algorithms, and the Practice of Concurrency Control and Recovery (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) ISBN-13: 978-1558605084 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1558605088/?coliid=IYEILMZI5DVNM&c...…
on “LearnDB: Learn how to build a database” ↗…wears a duster and drives around Chicago fighting bad guys. So you ask them if they've read SICP, and they're like, "No." Then you ask what technical books they've read lately, and lately they've read Transactional Information Systems, Cryptography Engineering, a recent version of the HTML 5 specification, A Guide to HP Handheld Calculators and Computers, Fifth Edition, and Physically Based Rendering, Second Edition. When you ask…
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