Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work

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title: Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work
type: book
summary: Petrov's two-part survey of storage engines and the distributed side of database systems
author: Alex Petrov
year: 2019
url: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/database-internals/9781492040330/
cohort: https://eatonphil.com/2023-database-internals.html
tags: databases, distributed-systems, storage
status: want-to-read
sources: eatonphil-bookclub
created: 2026-05-12
updated: 2026-05-12

Petrov's O'Reilly survey (2019) split into two halves: storage engines (B-trees, LSM-trees, file formats, recovery) and distributed systems (failure detection, leader election, replication, consensus, transactions across nodes). The reading list every working database engineer eventually reaches; less foundational than Bernstein but broader and current. Read by the eatonphil-bookclub in 2023: cohort page.

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