# Readings in Database Systems (5th ed., the Red Book)

The "Red Book" — Bailis/Hellerstein/Stonebraker's 5th edition (2015), free at [redbook.io](http://www.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]].