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.

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