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Storage Engines and Page Layout

Disk geometry dictates database design. Learn why sequential I/O beats random I/O by 100x, how fixed-size pages and slotted page headers work, why row-stores and column-stores suit different workloads, how the buffer pool keeps hot pages in RAM, and how the write-ahead log makes durability cheap.

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Storage Engines and Page Layout

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