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How databases work

What happens inside Postgres, MySQL and friends when you save, find and change data safely.

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  1. B-treesWide, shallow trees that suit disks and databases · 6 min
  2. Database indexesFinding rows without reading the whole table · 6 min
  3. Transactions and ACIDAll of a change happens, or none of it does · Coming soon
  4. Write-ahead loggingWriting down the plan before changing the data · Coming soon
  5. MVCCLetting readers and writers work at once with row versions · Coming soon
  6. Isolation levelsHow much concurrent transactions can see of each other · Coming soon
  7. LSM treesTurning random writes into fast sequential ones · Coming soon
  8. Query planningHow a database chooses the fastest way to answer · Coming soon
  9. Column storesStoring by column so analytics reads less · Coming soon