[libraryofbabel]

This is a great resource, even better for having been honed by actual teaching experience.

I was actually about to suggest added Kleppmann to the list! I think some of the earlier chapters of Kleppmann might actually be good for the databases section as well. Probably the best discussion of transaction isolation that I've read anywhere.

Another recent book that's good for databases (and that might replace or complement the "Architecture of a Database System" paper) is _Database Internals_ by Alex Petrov (O'Reilly, 2019). Like Kleppmann it also covers distributed systems; indeed it's getting harder and harder to separate the two areas these days.

[mesaframe]

I am thinking of creating a toy DBMS implementation for practice. Since, I would be doing if in off time. I won't be having much time for reading. So, what would you recommend as a starting point?

>Architecture of a Database System

or

>Database Internals