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When it comes to choosing, using, and maintaining a database, understanding its internals is essential. But with so many distributed databases and tools available today, it's often difficult to understand what each one offers and how they differ. With this practical guide, Alex Petrov guides developers through the concepts behind…

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The Database Internals will allow you to go one step further in your understanding of how distributed databases work.

The author has a lot of experience with one of the most successful distributed databases - Apache Cassandra and shares his knowledge about low-level details and internals of distributed databases.

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