Adrian's Reviews > Database Internals: A deep-dive into how distributed data systems work

Unfortunately i have read this book after Martin Kelppman's Designing Data Intensive apps and probably this is the reason i rated it poorly.

The book starts really good by describing the intetnal systems that are encompassed in any dbms ( Connection Listener layer , Query parser+ optimizer layer , execution layer and of course the storage layer).

I wanted the book to explore more on this subject , how the components are drsigned and how they deal with concurrency etc.

The book then took a deep dive into tree-based data structures ..as in really deep.
I found myself at times wondering why am i reading this.It was way too terse.

Now after this part the book became interesting once again by the time it started tackling distributed transactions,consensus ,replication,byzantine faults, paxos algorhitms.

I was already familiar with all of those which in my humble opinion were tackled slighty better in the first book i mentioned.

All in all a good book , but i wouldn't classify it as complementing Martin Klepmann's