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Title: Principles of Distributed Database Systems (2nd Edition) by M. Tamer Ozsu, Patrick Valduriez ISBN: 0-13-659707-6 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 19 January, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $86.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good DDBS book, but needs updating
Comment: This book was chosen as the main text for a distributed database systems graduate Computer Science course I recently took. For a CS course on the subject, it is an obvious pick since not many related texts exist on the market. The text is good, but needs updating since it was published in 1999. Research papers from IEEE and ACM were relied on as supplementary reading, since research in DDBS continues, and much has been written in the last four years.
Rating: 2
Summary: Poorly written. Boring.
Comment: I think this book is poorly written. The authors go a long way describing all kinds of taxonomies (look at the abundance of 3d diagrams such as Figure 4.11) without letting the user grasp the major ideas. Just check the discussion on the 10 types of distributed databases in chapter 4.
They also spend a lot of time and paper describing relatively simple concept without actually making the concepts any clearer. Some concepts never get defined so it's not clear why they had to be mentioned, check 13.4.2 and try to figure out what the convoy effect is.
I think the main problem of this book is that it tries to please to wide an audience: undergrad students, database researchers, and practitioners. I don't think the book is of much value for any of these categories of people.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good resource for advanced readers interested in theory
Comment: I'm a practicing DB engineer. I bought the book since it seems to be a popular graduate level textbook, and I needed to expand my understanding of distributed, federated, and multi-database systems. The book provides a broad overview of concepts and alternative architectures. There is some detailed theory in the text, which won't be useful to most DB practicioners, but if you prefer diving right into the deep end of new topics, this book is a good place to start. No info in this book on specific products or vendor approaches. I'm still climbing this learning curve, so I can't compare this to other books that are widely available (several dozen right here on Amazon.com.) A related topic, apparently still being researched, is database integration. This book touches on that topic (without calling it that), but so far the best info I've found is in IEEE and SIGMOD journals. I don't have any complaints about readability, perhaps because I bought the book expecting to take plenty of time studying it.
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Title: Principles of Transaction Processing by Philip Bernstein, Eric Newcomer ISBN: 1558604154 Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub. Date: 15 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Database Systems: The Complete Book by Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Jennifer D. Widom ISBN: 0130319953 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 02 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $91.00 |
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Title: Introduction to Algorithms, Second Edition by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein ISBN: 0262032937 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $79.95 |
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Title: Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques by Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber ISBN: 1558604898 Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $54.95 |
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Title: Transaction Processing : Concepts and Techniques by Jim Gray, Andreas Reuter ISBN: 1558601902 Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub. Date: 1993 List Price(USD): $99.95 |
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