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<h1>CS460 Syllabus</h1>
<p>Fundamental concepts of database management systems. Topics include: data models (relational, object-oriented, and others); the SQL query language; implementation techniques of database management systems (storage and index structures, concurrency control, recovery, and query processing); management of unstructured and semistructured data; and scientific data collections.</p>
<h1>Why should I take this class?</h1>
<p style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> Our every day activities, our business and government management activities, and scientific discovery today are heavily based on generating, storing, managing, and accessing massive amounts of data.</p>
<p class="no-margin"> We live in a <em>data-driven world</em>.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 10px;">Database systems provide the necessary infrastructure to manage huge data collections. This class serves as a comprehensive introduction in the key concepts of the architecture of modern database systems. We will discuss both traditional approaches used modern trends that shape the data management industry today. The primary focus of the course will be on the core concepts of the <em>internals</em> of database systems, covering query processing, storage and memory management, query optimization, transactional processing, recovery, as well as SQL and data modeling. We will also discuss the history of database systems and their evolution over the years. </p>
<h1 id="textbook">Textbooks</h1>
<p> In this class we will use big parts of the seminal textbook <a href="http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~dbbook/" target="_blank"> <strong>Database Management Systems</strong>, by <em>Raghu Ramakrishnan and Johannes Gehrke</em></a> (available at BU's library), and recent research papers that cover recent trends in data management. </p>
<h2>Additional Reading Material</h2>
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<li class="links_in_li"> <a target="_blank" href="http://mvdirona.com/jrh/perspectives/content/binary/ArchitectureOfDatabaseSystem.pdf" target="_blank">Architecture of a Database System</a>, by J. Hellerstein, M. Stonebraker and J. Hamilton </li>
<li class="links_in_li"> <a target="_blank" href="https://stratos.seas.harvard.edu/files/stratos/files/columnstoresfntdbs.pdf" target="_blank">The Design and Implementation of Modern Column-store Database Systems</a>, by D. Abadi, P. Boncz, S. Harizopoulos, S. Idreos, S. Madden </li>
<li class="links_in_li"><a href="http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=96143358AC36DB099F26DC24634BA73D?doi=10.1.1.219.7269&rep=rep1&type=pdf" target="_blank">Modern B-Tree Techniques</a>, by Goetz Graefe, <em>Foundations and Trends in Databases, 2011</em> </li>
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<h1>Notes</h1>
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In every class three students will be assigned to take notes, in order to maintain a document with <a href="https://tinyurl.com/CS460-F21-Notes" target="_blank">collaborative notes</a> (allowing later all students to enrich this document further). Collaborative notes is part of your class participation grade, and it is going to be helpful in reciting the material and also seeing how other classmates perceive it. You can find on the top right of the website the link to the collaborative notes.
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<h1>Prerequisites</h1>
CAS CS 112.<br/>
Familiarity with data structures, algorithms, low-level programming and systems is also helpful.
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<p>There are <strong>no late days for written assignments</strong>.</p>
<h1>Additional Resources</h1>
<p>Boston University is committed to providing equal access and support to all qualified students through the provision of reasonable accommodations so that each student may fully participate in the BU experience.
If you require additional accommodations please contact the Disability & Access Services office at <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> or 617-353-3658 to make an appointment with a DAS representative to determine which are the appropriate accommodations for your case.
Please be aware that accommodations cannot be enacted retroactively, making timeliness a critical aspect for their provision.
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<h1>Ethics</h1>
<p> Discussion among students for assignments and for the project is both encouraged and expected, however, the details of each submission (assignment or project) should be original, showing the unique thinking of each student (or group of students accordingly).</p>
<p>While computers enable easy copying and collaboration both with other students and materials from the Internet, it is possible to use these same computers to detect plagiarism and collaboration. The course staff reserves the right to use any available computational tools, or to write new tools to search for infractions. </p>
<p> Students should read the <em><strong>Boston University Academic Conduct Code</strong></em> located on website: <a href = "https://www.bu.edu/academics/policies/academic-conduct-code/" target="_blank">https://www.bu.edu/academics/policies/academic-conduct-code/</a>.</p>
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