databaseinternals

Sharding v/s Partitioning

This article deep dives into the fundamental difference between Sharding and Partitioning and how they both support in scaling a system.

Oct 5 •

MySQL vs PostgreSQL: Replication

This post deep dives into the replication implementation of MySQL vs PostgreSQL

Sep 7 •

B-Tree vs B+ Tree: Key Differences Explained

This article deep dives into how data storage happens in a B-Tree and B+Tree.

Sep 1 •

A deep dive: What is LSM tree?

This article deep dives into what is an LSM tree and how does it work internally.

Aug 18 •

MySQL vs PostgreSQL: Indexing

This article deep dives into what is the difference in indexing in MySQL vs PostgreSQL

Jun 16 •

Transaction Isolation Levels

This article will deep dive into various transaction isolation levels, why do we need them and some examples

May 24 •

Relational vs Document based databases

This post deep dives into the key differences between relational and document-based databases and helps to find the factors to choose one.

Apr 27 •

Multi Version Concurrency Control

The main advantage of using multi-version concurrency control rather than traditional locking( read-write lock ) is that MVCC locks acquired for reading…

Apr 14 •

This post deep dive into Google spanner as a database, it's internal working and what's so special about it compared to other databases

Mar 31 •

Database Internals - Write Ahead Log File Structure

This article deep dives into the file structure of a write-ahead log file

Feb 11 •

Database Internals - Write Ahead Logging (WAL)

This article deep dives into what is write ahead logging and why is it a useful concept

Dec 30, 2023 •

Database Internals - Optimistic vs Pessimistic

This article deep dives into optimistic locking vs pessimistic locking and which one to use when!

Dec 24, 2023 •

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