[HN Gopher] Readings in Database Systems (5th Edition) (2015)
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       Readings in Database Systems (5th Edition) (2015)
        
       Author : teleforce
       Score  : 139 points
       Date   : 2025-12-31 02:01 UTC (20 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.redbook.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.redbook.io)
        
       | gnabgib wrote:
       | (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 wrote:
       | 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."
        
         | nine_k wrote:
         | A perfect task for an AI agent, BTW.
        
         | sam_lowry_ wrote:
         | Why not to Scihub?
        
           | xpe wrote:
           | Sci-Hub rules:                   1. You do not talk about
           | Sci-Hub.         2. You do NOT talk about Sci-Hub.         3.
           | If a download says "Stop," goes limp,            or taps out,
           | that download is over.          4. Only two tries per mirror.
           | 5. One download at a time.          6. Shirt and shoes
           | optional.          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.
        
       | ctxc wrote:
       | Oh well...
       | 
       | https://ibb.co/BVrzQRWH
        
         | testdelacc1 wrote:
         | Wonder why. Did they confuse this with Maoist literature
         | (Little Red Book)?
        
           | ctxc wrote:
           | Hmm maybe, a blooper on their part
           | 
           | I just switched networks (wifi/mobile) and it worked, only
           | that provider seems to block it
        
         | nrhrjrjrjtntbt wrote:
         | 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]
        
       | zingar wrote:
       | How does this stack up in 2025/6?
        
       | herodoturtle wrote:
       | 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
        
         | layer8 wrote:
         | There are a lot of red books:
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book
        
       | vvern wrote:
       | 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)
        
         | B1FF_PSUVM wrote:
         | LLMs as DBs (if you squint hard enough)
        
         | kwillets wrote:
         | 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.
        
       | rodolphoarruda wrote:
       | 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.
        
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