Database Internals
9 boards, 20 lessons, 161 review questions, in 1 chapter. Read them in order. Each chapter builds on the one before.
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Contents
1One Database, to the Bolt20 lessons
What a database actually does with one line of SQL - every gear in order, traced through a real Postgres: the pages on disk, the memory in front of them, the crash log, the index, the versions, the planner.
- 01The sentence that says what7 Q
- 02Database Internals - the deep-dive set20 Q
- 03Pages & Heap Files6 Q
- 04The Buffer Pool7 Q
- 05WAL & Recovery7 Q
- 06B-Tree on Disk7 Q
- 07MVCC & Vacuum7 Q
- 08The Query Planner7 Q
- 09The plan, running8 Q
- 10Which shortcut to build8 Q
- 11Locks, Latches & Transactions7 Q
- 12The Database That Won't Answer8 Q
- 13The engine in production8 Q
- 14Build a bounded buffer pool7 Q
- 15Build sort and aggregate with a memory limit8 Q
- 16Build three ways to join8 Q
- 17Build a lock manager and deadlock detector8 Q
- 18Make this Postgres fast: the brief8 Q
- 19Make this Postgres fast: the fixes and the write-up8 Q
- 20Capstone: Database Internals, Everything7 Q
Borrowed from other tracks (9)
You don't need to take those tracks. These are the only lessons this track uses from them, and each is linked where it is needed.
- The Right Book for the Job (databases, deeply)System Design · needed for Database Internals - the deep-dive set
- Storage EnginesData Systems · needed for Database Internals - the deep-dive set
- Database 07: The Query LayerFrom Scratch · needed for The plan, running
- ReplicationData Systems · needed for The engine in production
- The Restore Nobody TestedDevOps · needed for The engine in production
- PagesFrom Scratch · needed for Build a bounded buffer pool
- Sorting & SearchingDSA · needed for Build sort and aggregate with a memory limit
- Transactions (MVCC)From Scratch · needed for Build a lock manager and deadlock detector
- Graphs (BFS, DFS, Dijkstra, topological sort)DSA · needed for Build a lock manager and deadlock detector