Databases

Title and Author of Paper Architecture of a Database System. Joseph M. Hellerstein, Michael Stonebraker, James Hamilton. Summary Architecture of a Database System provides an explanation of how to implement a relational database. It begins with an architectural overview of the main parts of a database system as viewed through the life of an SQL query. This includes how the query is received, parsed and optimized and how the resulting data is returned from storage as part of a transaction....

Title and Author of Paper What Goes Around Comes Around. Joseph M. Hellerstein and Michael Stonebraker. Summary What Goes Around Comes Around summarizes several methods for modelling data within a database system. Each data model is described and the benefits and drawbacks listed as lessons learned from research into that model. The authors clearly present their opinions on each model and help readers unfamiliar with past modelling attempts understand the history of this area of research....