Underwood Dudley has written more comprehensive books about mathematical cranks (in general) and trisectors (in particular) which are a delight to read.
Regarding the empty string and binary values: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/05/amazon-dy... (Disclosure: I work for AWS on DynamoDB and on this)
I like "Architecture of a Database System" by Stonebraker, Hamilton, and Hellerstein (http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/fntdb07-architecture.pdf) for an overview and then "Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques"…
Underwood Dudley has written more comprehensive books about mathematical cranks (in general) and trisectors (in particular) which are a delight to read.
Regarding the empty string and binary values: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/05/amazon-dy... (Disclosure: I work for AWS on DynamoDB and on this)
I like "Architecture of a Database System" by Stonebraker, Hamilton, and Hellerstein (http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/fntdb07-architecture.pdf) for an overview and then "Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques"…