Masters module - Advances in Data Management

MSc module Advances in Data Management

Spring Term 2019, Birkbeck

Provisional Course Schedule

Week 1	Principles of Database Systems
Week 2	Principles of Database Systems; Active and Deductive Databases
Week 3	Lab - Database Programming
Week 4	Query Processing and Optimisation; Lab (cont'd)
Week 5	Query Processing and Optimisation; Transaction Management
Week 6	Distributed and Heterogeneous Databases
Week 7	Lab - Ontology-based data integration and querying
Week 8	Parallel DBs; NoSQL, NewSQL, Graph DBs
Week 9	Guest Lecture by Petra Selmer (Neo4j) on Graph Querying and Graph Databases; Lab - MongoDB and Neo4j
Week 10	Semi-Structured Data Management; Lab (cont'd)
Week 11	Web Data Integration; Lab (cont'd)
Revision Lecture	Revision Questions

Teaching Assistant for the Lab sessions: Richard Brownlow (richard@dcs.bbk.ac.uk)

Office hours

If you wish to talk to Alex about the course, she is available on Mondays 5-5.30pm in her office. Alternatively please email her to set up an appointment at a different time.

Lecture Notes

Principles of Database Systems - 1 pdf
Principles of Database Systems - 2 pdf
Beyond records and objects pdf
Query Processing and Query Optimisation pdf
Transaction Management pdf
Distributed and Heterogeneous Databases pdf
Optional:
- More information about the AutoMed Heterogeneous Data Integration System pdf
- A Tutorial on the IQL Query Language used in the AutoMed system pdf
- If you are interested in finding out more about AutoMed, and in getting experience with using this toolkit for a practical data integration activity, please contact Richard Brownlow: richard@dcs.bbk.ac.uk
Parallel Databases pdf
NoSQL, NewSQL & Big Data pdf
Petra Selmer's lecture slides
Semi-structured data management pdf
Web Data Integration pdf

Additional resources are posted on the ADM Moodle for students enrolled on the module.

Coursework deadlines

Coursework 1: deadline Monday 18th February (marked work will be returned on 11th March)
Coursework 2: deadline Monday 4th March (marked work will be returned on 18th March)
Coursework 3: deadline Monday 18th March (marked work will be returned in the Revision lecture)
Coursework 4: deadline Monday 1st April (marked work will be returned in the Revision lecture)

Background reading

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