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Title and Author of Paper The Design of POSTGRES, Michael Stonebraker and Lawrence A. Rowe. Summary Postgres started as a research project to extend the standard database architecture to support several additional concepts: complex objects as values, user-defined data types and procedures, and alerting and triggers. This paper describes the system architecture designed to achieve these goals, while retaining functionality of the relational model. Although the design incorporates additional ideas such as time varying data, I will focus my review on the user-defined types and alerting scenarios. ...

Title and Author of Paper System R: Relational Approach to Database Management. M. M. Astrahan et al. Summary It’s hard to overstate the influence that the System R project had on database design and implementation. After reading this paper it is clear that traditional database architecture has not significantly changed since the System R project. System R provided the first implementation of SQL, the first demonstration of performant transactions, and provided the foundational groundwork in concurrency control and query optimization. ...

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. ...