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 12:30pm-1:50pm ET
- Location:
- Porter Hall 100
- 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.
Instructors
Name | Office Hours | Location | |
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Jignesh Patel | Monday 2:00-3:00pm GHC 9103 | GHC 9103 |
Teaching Assistants
Name | Office Hours | Location | |
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Aditya Bhatnagar | Monday 4:00-5:00pm TBD | TBD | |
Ramsey Boyce | Monday 5:00-6:00pm GHC 5th Floor (Commons, Table 3) | GHC 5th Floor (Commons, Table 3) | |
Hyoungjoo Kim | Tuesday 3:00-4:00pm GHC 5th Floor (Commons, Table 2) | GHC 5th Floor (Commons, Table 2) | |
Yuchen Liang | Tuesday 4:00-5:00pm GHC 5th Floor (Commons, Table 2) | GHC 5th Floor (Commons, Table 2) | |
Christos Laspias | Wednesday 4:00-5:00pm GHC 5th Floor (Commons, Table 6) | GHC 5th Floor (Commons, Table 6) | |
Yuqi Xiang | Thursday 2:00-3:00pm GHC 5th Floor (Commons, Table 3) | GHC 5th Floor (Commons, Table 3) | |
Joe Inchodikaran | Friday 5:00-6:00pm TBD | TBD | |
Alexis Schlomer | Friday 5:00-6:00pm TBD | TBD |