Advanced Topics in Databases

Course Organization

Lecturer:	Gunter Saake Eike Schallehn Veit Köppen
SWS:	2 + 2
Target audience:	Master IF, WIF, IIF, CV, DKE
Time/place (Lecture):	Wednesday 11:15, 05/211
Time/place (Exercise):	Monday 13:15, 05/209; Thursday 11:15, 05/208 (Starting April 23)

In the lecture students will be made familiar with most recent technological developments in data management. The first goal is to enable the attendees to use these new technologies in their professional careers in industry. Furthermore, the lecture focuses on aspects currently addressed in scientific research being on the verge to wide usage in current applications, and this way, enabling students to participate in academic and industrial research.

Topics of the lecture will frequently change in accordance with current research directions in the database community and represent cutting-edge aspects as for instance

Indexing and storage techniques for new applications and data types,
Data management for embedded devices and sensor networks,
Self-management capabilities of database management systems
Column-oriented DBMS
etc.

Lecture

Slides/handouts four the lecture will be made available here during the running lecture.

Introduction slides (pdf)
Cloud Data Management slides (pdf)
Multimedia Retrieval - Indexing and Storage Techniques slides (pdf)

Prerequisites

A Database introduction course (like Databases I or Data Management at the University in Magdeburg) are a necessary prerequisite. Background knowledge about internal database operations (query processing, storage structures, distributed data management, etc.) is advantageous.