Databases Books for Intermediate Developers
Level 12 books
12 Databases books for developers with some experience. These go beyond the basics — featuring titles like SQL Performance Explained and Architecting an Apache Iceberg L....
Rankings
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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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NoSQL Distilled
Pramod J. Sadalage, Martin Fowler
30 in 90d
databasesdatabackend
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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Modern Business Analytics
Deanne Larson
70 in 90d
data-sciencedatabasesdata
5.5
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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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Enabling Agentic Analytics with Apache Iceberg and Dremio
Alex Merced
22 in 90d
databasesdata-sciencedata
4.6
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Relational to Graph
Jinwen He
30 in 90d
databasesdatabackend
3.5
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