Current Courses
The database group offers a variety of courses for our Bachelor's and Master's program.
Winter Term 2026/27
- Datenbanksysteme II (BSc., lecture)
Felix Naumann - Einführung in die Datenbanktheorie (BSc., lecture)
Sarah Kleest-Meißner - Big Data Systeme (MSc., lecture)
Tilmann Rabl, Martin Boissier, Nils Straßenburg, Ricardo Salazar - Big Data Lab (MSc., lecture)
Tilmann Rabl, Ilin Tolovski - Process Mining (MSc., lecture)
Matthias Weidlich - Advanced Data Profiling (MSc., project seminar)
Felix Naumann - Spatial Databases (MSc., lecture)
Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou, Maximilian Schulze - Query Languages for Sequential Data (MSc., project seminar)
Matthias Weidlich, Maike Basmer - Research Methods (MSc., seminar)
Felix Naumann - Bachelorprojekt Ariadne (Bachelor's project)
Felix Naumann - Bachelorprojekt XX (Bachelor's project)
Tilmann Rabl
Summer Term 2026
- Advanced Error Detection (MSc, project seminar)
Lisa Ehrlinger, Francesco Pugnaloni, Felix Naumann - Data Integration (MSc, lecture)
Felix Naumann, Sedir Mohammed - Datenbanksysteme I (BSc, lecture)
Felix Naumann, Youri Kaminsky - Datenbanktheorie (BSc, seminar)
Tilmann Rabl, Sarah Kleest-Meißner - Develop Your Own Database (MSc, project seminar)
Martin Boissier, Daniel Lindner, Florian Schmeller - Hardware-Conscious Data Processing (MSc, lecture)
Tilmann Rabl, Florian Schmeller, Martin Boissier - Machine Learning Systems (MSc, project seminar)
Tilmann Rabl, Ilin Tolovski, Ricardo Salazar Díaz, Nils Strassenburg - Management of Complex Data Types (MSc, lecture)
Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou, Maximilian Schulze - Joint Database Systems Seminar (Research Seminar, MSc)
Tilmann Rabl, Carsten Binnig, Zsolt István, Andreas Kipf - Optimizing the Execution of SQL Patterns (Master's project)
Tilmann Rabl, Matthias Weidlich - smARTmatch: Automated Search for Lost Art (Bachelor's project)
Philipp Hildebrandt, Sedir Mohammed, Felix Naumann
Past semesters
For past courses since Winter 2006/07 please see our archive.
Many courses are recorded on tele-TASK, and we have offered two courses on openHPI, which are still open to the public (in German): Datenmanagement mit SQL (2013) and Data Engineering und Data Science – Klarheit in den Schlagwort-Dschungel (2020).
Theses & Projects
We are always happy to discuss ideas for master projects and master's theses. Please contact facuty or any other researcher in our group.
- Bachelor projects (2-semester projects with 4-8 students and an external partner)
- Master projects (1-semester projects with 3-6 students on a research problem)
- Master theses (6-month project with a single student on a research problem)
Templates
- Seminar papers (designed by Tobias Pape)
- Bachelor- and Master theses