Given below is a list of useful links:

• VLDB Conference
• Other Database Conferences
• The VLDB Journal
• Computer Science Journals
• Tehran University Database Research Group
• University of Waterloo Database Group
• Stanford University Database Group
• Berkeley Database Research Group
• The Indiana University Database Group
• PostgreSQL
• MySQL
• Thor (A large-scale distributed, object-oriented database system)
• Mood: An Object Oriented Database System
• eXist (Open Source XML Database)
• A First Course in Database Systems
• Algorithmic Issues in Database Systems