This is a very good book! Recently, I am very happy with a number of more foundational data books from O’Reilly:

Designing Data-Intensive Applications https://dataintensive.net/

Streaming Systems http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920073994.do

and this one.

I've been reading this book for the last few days - it is way above what you expect these days for a technical book from a popular publisher in terms of its description of underlying data structures and algorithms. It's also easy to read. The depth of a text book with the approachability of a typical working programmer's book.

I also recommend following Andy Pavlo and the CMU Database Group which has lots of free courses, videos and material:

https://db.cs.cmu.edu/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHnBsf2rH-K7pn09rb3qvkA

The topical overview certainly sounds interesting, but sounds extremely similar to Designing Data Intensive Applications which also covers modern DB internals.

What’s the sell here?

Database Design and Implementation by Edward Sciore implements a fully working relational database from buffer manager up to parser and beyond. It's very much in the spirit of Tanenbaum's OS book.

Here's the landing page for the book's implementation: http://www.cs.bc.edu/~sciore/simpledb/intro.html

Unfortunately, I don't think the book is in print anymore.

I am reading this book for the past few days. Very well written!

Grey text on white background => almost unreadable on my screen and I don't usually have problems with low contrast.

In past few days I've heard so many praises and also I have heard so much criticism about Database Books in general.

What makes this book so much better?

Nice. This is the book I've been wishing someone wrote for a long time. Finally! Insta-buy.

Is this a full fee paid course for on campus students?

Because if it is, I would be miffed and feel short changed to be told to watch youtube lectures on my own time. I value face to face time and interactivity with my professor or lecturer. If this is a heavily discounted course due to the crippled way it is taught then I have no issue.

From the syllabus:

CS144 is taught using a combination of lectures and videos. In previous years, it was entirely “flipped”; i.e. all the lecture material was taught by videos. This year things are different and we are going to mix things up: Some weeks, including the first week, will be based on recorded videos that you are required to watch in your own time. We will call these Video Weeks. Other weeks, including the second week, are based entirely on in-class lectures, and you don’t need to watch any videos. We will call these Lecture-only Weeks. So why mix things up? We are teaching this way because we have found that some of the material (e.g. the basic principles you learn in week 1) are most efficiently learned by watching videos - the concepts are fairly simple and the material is descriptive; a video is a more efficient use of your time. Other material, such as when you learn about congestion control in week 4, is best learned in person, interactively in a lecture.