Princeton University
Computer Science Dept.

Computer Science 597D
Principles of Database and Information Systems

Andrea LaPaugh

Fall 2013


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Except for the first meeting, you are expected to do the reading before class.  

For the first class, it would be helpful for discussion to have read the Atzeni et. al. paper.  Read this paper get a preview of some of the major issues, even if you do not have the technical understanding yet to appreciate the details. 

R&G refers to Raghu Ramakrishnan and Johannes Gehrke, Database Management Systems, Third Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2003.


WEEK 1
Wed. Sept. 11: Introduction


WEEK 2

Mon. Sept. 16:  Relational database model


Wed. Sept. 18:   Formal relational query languages

WEEK 3
  UPDATED!

Mon.  Sept 23 
Formal relational query languages, continued
Wed. Sept. 25:   Discussion of Codd's reduction paper; SQL

WEEK 4  UPDATED!
Mon. Sept. 30.  SQL continued Wed. Oct. 2:  Functional constraints.   Start Information Retrieval  overview  if time.

WEEK 5
Mon. Oct. 7: Information Retrieval and key-value (noSQL) stores

Wed. Oct 9
:  Storage organization and indexing
WEEK 6
Mon. Oct 14:  Storage organization and indexing continued Wed. Oct 16:  Distributed storage


WEEK 7
Mon. Oct 21: 
Transactions and ACID properties


Wed. Oct 23:  Consistency for distributed stores


Fall break



WEEK 8

Mon. Nov. 4: Executing queries:  fundamentals and SQL queries
Wed. Nov. 6:  Executing queries continued

WEEK 9
Mon. Nov. 11:  Highly-parallel execution:  MapReduce


Wed. Nov. 13:  Crash recovery
WEEK 10
Mon. Nov. 18: Semi-structured data : XML and the tree model

Wed. Nov. 20:  TBA

WEEK 11
Mon.  Nov. 25:  TBA
Wed. Nov. 27 
Thanksgiving recess


WEEK 12

Mon.  Dec. 2: TBA Wed. Dec 4: TBA
WEEK 13


Mon.  Dec. 9:
TBA

Wed. Dec. 11: TBA




Project Report due 5:00 pm Dean's Date, Tuesday Jan. 14, 2014

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last revised Mon Sep 30 16:36:02 EDT 2013
Copyright  2013 Andrea S. LaPaugh