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Database Engineering
  • Database Fundamentals
  • SQL
  • Relational Modeling
  • Normalization & Denormalization
  • Indexes
  • Query Execution & Optimization
  • Transactions
  • Concurrency & Isolation
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • NoSQL & Data Models
  • Vector Databases & Retrieval
  • Scaling
  • Distributed Databases
  • Caching
Database Internals
  • Overview
  • Build AtlasDB
  • Storage, Records & Pages
  • Index Internals
  • Buffer Management
  • WAL & Recovery
  • Transactions & MVCC Internals
  • LSM Trees
  • Query Engine
  • PostgreSQL & InnoDB Internals
  • Distributed Internals
  • Performance Internals
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Database Engineering

Database Fundamentals

What a database actually is, what the engine does with your query, and where the data physically lives.

See how this works internally:Storage, Records & Pages →
What a Database Actually Is
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A database is a program that owns your data’s durability, concurrency and access paths so that your application does not have to — and every feature it has is there to make one of those three cheaper or safer.

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