1. 完整教材:
    • 全书:Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Jennifer Widom: Database systems - the complete book (2. ed.). Pearson Education 2009, ISBN 978-0-13-187325-4, pp. I-XXVI, 1-1203
    • 奶牛书:Raghu Ramakrishnan, Johannes Gehrke: Database management systems (3. ed.). McGraw-Hill 2003, ISBN 978-0-07-115110-8, pp. I-XXXII, 1-1065

  2. 数据库基础
    • 帆船书:Abraham Silberschatz, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan: Database System Concepts, 6th Edition. McGraw-Hill Book Company 2010
    • 全书前一半:Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Jennifer Widom: Database systems - the complete book (2. ed.). Pearson Education 2009, ISBN 978-0-13-187325-4, pp. I-XXVI, 1-1203

  3. 实现
    • 奶牛书:Raghu Ramakrishnan, Johannes Gehrke: Database management systems (3. ed.). McGraw-Hill 2003, ISBN 978-0-07-115110-8, pp. I-XXXII, 1-1065
    • 全书后一半:Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Jennifer Widom: Database systems - the complete book (2. ed.). Pearson Education 2009, ISBN 978-0-13-187325-4, pp. I-XXVI, 1-1203
    • M. Tamer Özsu, Patrick Valduriez: Principles of Distributed Database Systems, Third Edition. Springer 2011, ISBN 978-1-4419-8833-1, pp. I-XIX, 1-845

  4. 理论
    • 棒球书:J.D. Ullman: Principles of Database and Knowledge-base Systems, Vol. I/II. 1988/1989
    • 爱丽丝书:Serge Abiteboul, Richard Hull, Victor Vianu: Foundations of Databases. Addison-Wesley 1995, ISBN 0-201-53771-0

  5. 事务
    • 基础:Philip A. Bernstein, Eric Newcomer: Principles of Transaction Processing for Systems Professionals (2nd Edition). Morgan Kaufmann. 2009
    • 理论:Gerhard Weikum, Gottfried Vossen: Transactional Information Systems: Theory, Algorithms, and the Practice of Concurrency Control and Recovery. Morgan Kaufmann 2002, ISBN 1-55860-508-8
    • 实现:Jim Gray, Andreas Reuter: Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques. Morgan Kaufmann 1993, ISBN 1-55860-190-2

  6. 进阶
    • 红宝书:Peter Bailis, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Michael Stonebraker, editors. Readings in Database Systems, 5th Edition (Readings in Database Systems, 5th Edition)