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This site provides information about 15-823, a course titled
"Hot Topics In Database Systems." It is a course intended for students who
- have taken database courses before and want to know what is new and sizzling in the database community;
- are looking for a Ph.D. topic;
- are already involved in a project that needs database expertise, and want to learn more about it.
Database systems today are more ubiquitous than ever. With the
explosion of information, new requirements for fast and reliable
data management have emerged. Terabytes of
information are now commodity, and petabytes are around the
corner. On top of that, database systems now operate on hardware
that has intelligence on its own, makes decisions and predicts
what the software will do. All of the above open new horizons for research
on database performance.
The course covers performance issues in today's database
system design. Topics include query processing and optimization,
concurrency control, smart and efficient benchmarking,
modern query processing algorithms for internet applications,
interaction between the database software and the underlying hardware,
and other topics related to database system performance.
University units: 12