Annotated readings of seminal database papers
Databricks presents Lakebase, a third-generation transactional database that externalizes all storage to cloud object storage in open PostgreSQL page format, enabling zero-copy branching and unified Lakehouse analytics
The System R team at IBM San Jose Research Lab presented the first complete architecture of a relational DBMS, covering query optimizer, views, authorization, concurrency control, and crash recovery
Chamberlin and Boyce proposed the Structured English Query Language SEQUEL, replacing predicate calculus with SELECT-FROM-WHERE blocks — the direct ancestor of SQL
Codd's relational model transformed the paradigm of data management — from navigational access to declarative queries