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Database Fundamentals

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About a year ago, I tried thinking which database I should choose for my next project, and came to the realization that I don't really know the differences of databases enough. I went to different database websites and saw mostly marketing and words I don't understand. This is when I decided to read the excellent books Database Internals by Alex Petrov and Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann. The books piqued my curiosity enough to write my own little database I called dbeel. This post is basically a short summary of these books, with a focus on the fundamental problems a database engineer thinks about in the shower. Let's start with the simplest database program ever written, just 2 bash functions (we'll call it bashdb): Try it out: Before you continue reading, I want you to pause and think about why you wouldn't use bashdb in production. You probably came up with at least a dozen issues in bashdb. Now I won't go over all of the possible issues, for this post I w

Database Fundamentals . Posted on 2023-12-15 About a year ago, I tried thinking which database I should choose for my next project, and came to the realization that I don't really know the differences of databases enough. I went to different database websites and saw mostly marketing and words I don't understand. This is when I decided to read the excellent books Database Internals by Alex Petrov and Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann. The books piqued my curiosity enough to write my own little database I called dbeel . This post is basically a short summary of these boo

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