Readings in Database Systems
Joseph M. Hellerstein, Michael Stonebraker
The MIT Press
<p><b>The latest edition of a popular text and reference on database research, with substantial new material and revision; covers classical literature and recent hot topics.</b></p><p>Lessons from database research have been applied in academic fields                  ranging from bioinformatics to next-generation Internet architecture and in                  industrial uses including Web-based e-commerce and search engines. The core ideas in                  the field have become increasingly influential. This text provides both students and                  professionals with a grounding in database research and a technical context for                  understanding recent innovations in the field. The readings included treat the most                  important issues in the database area--the basic material for any DBMS                  professional.</p><p>This fourth edition has been substantially updated and revised, with 21                  of the 48 papers new to the edition, four of them published for the first time. Many                  of the sections have been newly organized, and each section includes a new or                  substantially revised introduction that discusses the context, motivation, and                  controversies in a particular area, placing it in the broader perspective of                  database research. Two introductory articles, never before published, provide an                  organized, current introduction to basic knowledge of the field; one discusses the                  history of data models and query languages and the other offers an architectural                  overview of a database system. The remaining articles range from the classical                  literature on database research to treatments of current hot topics, including a                  paper on search engine architecture and a paper on application servers, both written                  expressly for this edition. The result is a collection of papers that are seminal                  and also accessible to a reader who has a basic familiarity with database                  systems.<br></p>