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 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 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 BTreebased and immutable Log Structured storage engines

Storage building blocks Learn how database files are organized to build efficient storage using auxiliary data structures

Distributed systems Learn how nodes and processes connect and build complex communication patterns

Database clusters Which consistency models are commonly used by modern databases and how distributed storage systems achieve consistency