The Database Safari

Gabor Koos is a software engineer and technical writer based in London, England, United Kingdom, specializing in backend systems, distributed architectures, and modern database technologies. He has designed and built large-scale, data-intensive platforms across media, online gaming, finance, and government, with a focus on database design, performance optimization, and scalable system architectures. He also maintains open-source projects that support developer tooling and data processing.

1. Foundations of SQL and NoSQL: The Basics of Relational and Non-Relational Databases.- 2. Columnar/OLAP Databases: Large-Scale Aggregation.- 3. Lakehouse Table Formats: ACID Tables on Object Storage.- 4. Event-Stream and Append-Only Databases: Managing Sequential, Immutable Data.- 5. Time-Series Databases: Handling High-Volume Temporal Data.- 6. Probabilistic/Approximate Databases: Trading Accuracy for Efficiency.- 7. Vector Databases and High-Dimensional Search: Semantic Similarity at Scale.- 8. Graph Databases: Modeling Highly Connected Data.- 9. Geospatial and Spatial Databases: Storing and Querying Location-Based Data.- 10. Choosing the Right Engine and Hybrid Architectures.