Best Database Books
TopicBest database books recommended by developers. From SQL fundamentals to advanced internals and distributed data systems.
Books
24
Total mentions
139
Avg 90d mentions
1
Rankings
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Martin Kleppmann
676 in 90d
system-designdatabasesbackend
144.3
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SQL Performance Explained
Markus Winand
51 in 90d
databasesbackenddata
11.3
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Architecting an Apache Iceberg Lakehouse
Alex Merced
142 in 90d
databasesdata-sciencedata
10.6
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Spark: The Definitive Guide
Bill Chambers, Matei Zaharia
31 in 90d
data-sciencedatabasesdata
8.3
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High Performance MySQL
Baron Schwartz, Peter Zaitsev, Vadim Tkachenko
31 in 90d
databasesbackenddata
8.3
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NoSQL Distilled
Pramod J. Sadalage, Martin Fowler
30 in 90d
databasesdatabackend
7.5
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The Data Warehouse Toolkit
Ralph Kimball
30 in 90d
databasesdata-sciencedata
7.5
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7 databases in 7 weeks
Eric Redmond, Jim R. Wilson
21 in 90d
databasesdatabackend
5.8
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MongoDB in Action
Kyle Banker
30 in 90d
databasesbackenddata
5.5
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PHP & MySQL: Novice to Ninja
Tom Butler, Kevin Yank
30 in 90d
phpdatabasesbackend
5.5
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Modern Business Analytics
Deanne Larson
70 in 90d
data-sciencedatabasesdata
5.5
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Learning SQL
Alan Beaulieu
20 in 90d
databasesbackenddata
5
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Database Design for Mere Mortals
Michael J. Hernandez
20 in 90d
databasesbackenddata
5
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Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design
Pramod Sadalage and Scott Ambler
20 in 90d
databasescode-qualitybackend
5
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Database Reliability Engineering
Laine Campbell, Charity Majors
20 in 90d
databasessoftware-architecturedata
5
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The Enterprise Big Data Lake
Alex Gorelik
20 in 90d
databasesdata-sciencedata
5
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PHP and MySQL Web Development
Luke Welling
20 in 90d
phpdatabasesbackend
5
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Database Internals
Alex Petrov
20 in 90d
databasessystem-designbackend
5
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Database System Concepts
Abraham Silberschatz, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan
20 in 90d
databasesdatabackend
5
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Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties
Joe Celko
20 in 90d
databasesdatabackend
5
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