Hellerstein J.M., Stonebraker M. Readings in Database Systems

4th Edition. — Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, 2005. — 878 p. — ISBN: 0262693143This fourth edition of Readings in Database Systems is being issued at an interesting time in the history of the field. The database industry has undergone significant consolidation in recent years. It is now dominated by three companies, two of which are not database vendors per se. IBM and Microsoft manage large portfolios of products and services; database systems are one—but only one—of their crown jewels. The third major player, Oracle, is nominally a database company, but is as active in enterprise applications as it is in core database systems. The era of the “database wars” is over, and it has been a long time since a database startup company has made major noise. The argument is sometimes made that database management systems—like many other components in the computing industry—are a victim of
their own success: they have reached a level of maturity at which significant industrial innovation has become impossible.Data Models and DBMS Architecture
Query Processing
Data Storage and Access Methods
Transaction Management
Extensibility
Database Evolution
Data Warehousing
Data Mining
Web Services and Data Bases
Stream-Based Data Management