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Great intro and overview: http://coding-geek.com/how-databases-work/

Great book: https://dataintensive.net/

Also great read and overview: http://www.redbook.io/

Great paper over-viewing the architecture of a DB: https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/content/binary/Architectur...

If you're looking into building your own database, there are some great open source projects you can reference here: https://github.com/danistefanovic/build-your-own-x#build-you...

If you want to actually dive into source code - SQLite is amazing. It has very clean and readable code, so I'd suggest using it as a reference as well: https://github.com/mackyle/sqlite

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