Intro to Database Systems
Yes, this is the premier course at Carnegie Mellon University on the design and implementation of database management systems. Topics include data models (relational, document, key/value), storage models (n-ary, decomposition), query languages (SQL, stored procedures), storage architectures (heaps, log-structured), indexes + filters (order preserving trees, hash tables, vector indexes), transaction processing (ACID, concurrency control), recovery (logging, checkpoints), query processing (joins, sorting, aggregation, optimization), and parallel architectures (multi-core, distributed). Case studies on open-source and commercial database systems are used to illustrate these techniques and trade-offs. The course is appropriate for students that are prepared to sweat their systems programming skills.
- Time:
- Mon/Wed 2:00pm-3:20pm ET
- Location:
- Tepper 1403
- Textbook:
- DB System Concepts (7th Ed.)
- Discussion:
- Piazza
Acknowledgements
Thanks to the following organizations for their support towards course development as part of the CMU-DB Affiliates Program.
Course Calendar
Instructors
Name | Office Hours | Location | |
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Andy Pavlo | Wednesday 3:30-4:30pm GHC 9019 | GHC 9019 |
Teaching Assistants
Name | Office Hours | Location | |
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Yuanxin Cao | Tuesday 12:30-1:30pm GHC 5th Floor (Commons, Table 1) | GHC 5th Floor (Commons, Table 1) | |
J-How Huang | Tuesday 10:30-11:30am GHC 5th Floor (Commons, Table 1) | GHC 5th Floor (Commons, Table 1) | |
William Zhang | Wednesday 10:30-11:30am GHC 5th Floor (Commons, Table 7) | GHC 5th Floor (Commons, Table 7) | |
Connor Tsui | Thursday 6:00-7:00pm GHC 5th Floor (Commons, Carrel 2) | GHC 5th Floor (Commons, Carrel 2) | |
Yash Kothari | Friday 2:00-3:00pm GHC 5th Floor (Commons, Table 7) | GHC 5th Floor (Commons, Table 7) | |
Prashanth Duvvada | Friday 4:00-5:00pm GHC 5th Floor (Commons, Table 1) | GHC 5th Floor (Commons, Table 1) | |
Kunle Li | Thursday 9:30-10:30am GHC 5th Floor (Commons, Table 1) | GHC 5th Floor (Commons, Table 1) | |
Lan Lou | Monday 12:45-1:45pm GHC 5th Floor (Commons, Table 1) | GHC 5th Floor (Commons, Table 1) |