Introduction

This is a curated reading list about database systems, including personal digests of books/papers/blogs.

Booklist can be found in README, while paper and blog digests are located in the issue list.

In the issue list, a closed issue means that the digest about it was finished, while an open one means that the digest is to-be-appeared or on-the-flying.

For each paper digest, I try to answer the following questions:

• What problem does the paper solve? Is it important?
• How does it solve the problem? Any approaches new?
• What could be improved?
• Anything interesting about it?

Booklist

• Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
• Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work
• Streaming Systems: The What, Where, When, and How of Large-Scale Data Processing
• Stream Processing with Apache Flink
• Database System Concepts, 5th Edition
• Readings in Database Systems, 5th Edition
• Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective, 3th Edition
• The PhD Grind

Referenced Reading Lists

General

• [:star:] MIT 6.824 Distributed System Course

• [:star:] Andy Pavlo at CMU: CMUDatabaseGroup

• [:star:] Yuanli Wang at BU: Sys Reading

• [:star:] Xiangfeng Zhu at UW: Reading List

• Lianke Qin at UCSB: Paper

• Reynold Xin at Databricks: DB Readings

• UIUC: https://systems-seminar-uiuc.github.io/fall20/index.html

• UIUC: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gWQ_Uk60zIH6PvP1P4NYzz4TvrKWGCnltySBxwkradM/edit

• NYU: NYU System Seminar

• UMass: Systems Lunch

• UCSD: http://www.sysnet.ucsd.edu/classes/cse294/sp20/

• Cornell: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs7490/2020fa/

• UW: playlists

• http://dancres.github.io/Pages/

• Distributed System Readings

• Database Techiques Everyone Should Know

• https://github.com/mosharaf/eecs598/tree/w19-bigdata-ai

• Blogs of Dan Abadi at UMD: DBMS Musings

• Classical material on distributed systems: Awesome Distributed Systems

• Alaikexisi at AWS (in Chinese): https://www.zhihu.com/column/c_158208519

• Chinese translation set of classic papers in distributed system field: http://duanple.com/?p=170

Streaming Systems

• [:star:] Vasia at BU:
  • course DSPA 21
  • course DSPA 20
• Jamie Brandon: Scattered Thoughts
• Dunith Dhanushka: https://dunith.medium.com/
• streaming readings (in Chinese)
• Open Problems in Stream Processing: A Call To Action

System + Machine Learning

• Umich: https://github.com/mosharaf/eecs598
• https://github.com/mcanini/SysML-reading-list
• https://remziarpacidusseau.wixsite.com/mlos

System Reliability

• JHU: https://www.cs.jhu.edu/~huang/cs817/spring21/
• JHU: https://www.cs.jhu.edu/~huang/cs624/spring21/syllabus.html
• UMich: Summer School 2020
• Systems Reading

In-Memory Databases

• CMU advanced database systems course
  • course videos
  • course reading list