Readings in Database Systems (5th ed., the Red Book)
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- Readings in Database Systems (5th ed., the Red Book)
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- book
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- The Red Book — annotated database-papers reading list with the editors' framing essays
- author
- Peter Bailis, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Michael Stonebraker (editors)
- year
- 2015
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- databases, research, history
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- want-to-read
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- eatonphil-bookclub
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- 2026-05-12
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- 2026-05-12
The "Red Book" — Bailis/Hellerstein/Stonebraker's 5th edition (2015), free at redbook.io. Curated, opinionated annotated reading list of database systems papers organized by topic, with framing essays from the editors that argue for what's important and why. Half-textbook, half-syllabus. On the eatonphil-bookclub speculative future list.
Related: database-internals, concurrency-control-and-recovery-in-database-systems, linux-kernel-pgit.
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