CPSC 637 Schedule and Readings

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Traditional Database Architecture
Date	Topic	Notes
01/15	Introduction
01/17	Database Internals	Read Sections 1-4 (you can skip 4.6; we will look at this later)
01/22	Transaction Processing
01/24	System R	Requires a Yale IP for access. Read up to page 122 (i.e. up to the section entitled "transaction management").
01/29	Database Internals	Read Sections 5-8
Distributed and Parallel Databases
Date	Topic	Notes
01/31	System R*
02/05	Parallel Databases	Requires a Yale IP for access. Once you get to the section on "State of the Art", you can scan quickly through the rest of the paper.
02/07	Replication	Requires a Yale IP for access.
02/12	TinyDB	Focus on Sections 1-4 (through page 23), but the whole paper is worth reading.
Main Memory Databases
Date	Topic	Notes
02/14	Dali	Requires a Yale IP for access. Focus on Section 1, Section 4.1-4.7, and Section 7.3.1.
02/19	Main Memory Indexes	Requires a Yale IP for access.
02/21	H-Store
02/26	Mid-term Exam
Analytical Databases and Data Warehouses
Date	Topic	Notes
02/28	Overview	Requires a Yale IP for access.
03/04	Data Cubes	Requires a Yale IP for access.
03/06	C-Store	You can avoid reading Sections 8 and 9. If you are interested, they can be replaced by my PhD thesis, in particular Chapters 2, 3, and 7. Other follow-on papers to this original can be found here, here, here, here, and here.
03/25	X100
Stream Databases
Date	Topic	Notes
03/27	Aurora	Requires a Yale IP for access.
04/01	SEQ
04/03	XStream	Requires a Yale IP for access.
Web Data Management
Date	Topic	Notes
04/08	Search Engines
04/10	Bigtable
04/15	MapReduce
04/17	Semantic Web
Final Project Presentations
04/22	First half of presentations
04/24	Second half of presentations