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
Andy Pavlo Wednesday 3:30-4:30pm GHC 9019 GHC 9019

Teaching Assistants

Name Office Hours Location
Lan Lou Monday 12:45-1:45pm 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)
Connor Tsui Thursday 6:00-7:00pm GHC 5th Floor (Commons, Carrel 2) GHC 5th Floor (Commons, Carrel 2)
Kunle Li Thursday 9:30-10:30am GHC 5th Floor (Commons, Table 1) GHC 5th Floor (Commons, Table 1)
Yuanxin Cao Tuesday 12:30-1:30pm GHC 5th Floor (Commons, Table 1) GHC 5th Floor (Commons, Table 1)
Prashanth Duvvada Friday 4:00-5:00pm 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)
Yash Kothari Friday 2:00-3:00pm GHC 5th Floor (Commons, Table 7) GHC 5th Floor (Commons, Table 7)