CIS 422: Massive Data Management

Course Description

An introduction to database systems, concepts, and techniques for big data. The course discusses classical relational technologies, and then covers the more current approaches to managing massive amounts of data for analytics purposes. Topics include database environments, database design, the relational data model, normalization, SQL, query processing, parallel databases and query processing, in-database analytics, data warehousing, key-value and column stores, NoSQL and NewSQL approaches for managing massive data. (F)