Best Database Books

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Best database books recommended by developers. From SQL fundamentals to advanced internals and distributed data systems.

24 books 165 mentions 1 avg in 90d Methodology

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Role

Level

Intent

Designing Data-intensive Applications

Martin Kleppmann

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SQL Performance Explained

Markus Winand

databasesbackenddata

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Learning SQL

Alan Beaulieu

databasesbackenddata

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Spark: The Definitive Guide

Bill Chambers, Matei Zaharia

data-sciencedatabasesdata

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Architecting an Apache Iceberg Lakehouse

Alex Merced

databasesdata-sciencedata

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Database Design for Mere Mortals

Michael J. Hernandez

databasesbackenddata

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High Performance MySQL

Baron Schwartz, Peter Zaitsev, Vadim Tkachenko

databasesbackenddata

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NoSQL Distilled

Pramod J. Sadalage, Martin Fowler

databasesdatabackend

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The Data Warehouse Toolkit

Ralph Kimball

databasesdata-sciencedata

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7 databases in 7 weeks

Eric Redmond, Jim R. Wilson

databasesdatabackend

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MongoDB in Action

Kyle Banker

databasesbackenddata

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PHP & MySQL: Novice to Ninja

Tom Butler, Kevin Yank

phpdatabasesbackend

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Modern Business Analytics - Deanne Larson

Deanne Larson

data-sciencedatabasesdata

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Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design

Pramod Sadalage and Scott Ambler

databasescode-qualitybackend

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Database Reliability Engineering

Laine Campbell, Charity Majors

databasessoftware-architecturedata

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The Enterprise Big Data Lake

Alex Gorelik

databasesdata-sciencedata

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PHP and MySQL Web Development

Luke Welling

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Database Internals

Alex Petrov

databasessystem-designbackend

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Database System Concepts

Abraham Silberschatz, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan

databasesdatabackend

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SQL for smarties

Joe Celko

databasesdatabackend

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