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Capstone: Operating Systems for Databases
Every idea in this course, running for real inside the database on your production server. Every section is a drawn page beside a clear written explanation, about 19 minutes in all.
- Chapter 37 of 37
- About 19 minutes
- 9 sections
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In this chapter
- A database is an OS-shaped problem
- The process vs thread model: Postgres and InnoDB
- The buffer pool vs the OS page cache
- Durability: fsync, the WAL & the write path
- Concurrency control: locks and latches
- MVCC: readers that don’t block writers
- Deadlocks in databases
- Scheduling, I/O and the shape of a query
- The big picture: know your OS, build better systems
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