Lecturers
- Prof. Hasso Plattner
- Jens Krüger
- Florian Hübner
Description
This seminar covers advanced database topics in the context of in-memory databases with regards to enterprise data management. At the beginning of the term the students will be provided with the necessary knowledge in a short series of lectures. The main part of the seminar will consist of individually preparing a topic in close supervision with a lecturer. The following topics will be covered:
- Analytical model for In-Memory Database Operators
- Merge Process Optimizations (In-place / Rebuild)
- Strategies for a Merge Process
- Merge Process Scheduling in Mixed Workload Environments
- Bit Compression for Dictionary Encoding in In-Memory Databases
- Impact of Data Distribution on Data Processing
- Impact of the Merge Process on the Transactional Behavior
- Inverted Index Maintenance
- In-Memory Databases on Mobile Devices
- Leveraging GPU's for In-Memory Databases
Prerequisites
- Completed Bachelor studies
- Participation in courses Datenbanksysteme I and II is helpful
- C++ programming skills are desirable.
Performance Assessment Process
Students have to deliver all of the items below:
- Presentations (all graded)
- Intermediate presentation (10 mins talk + 5 mins discussion)
- Final presentation (20 mins talk + 10 mins discussion)
- Testbed for measurements
- Paper (12 pages in ACM two-column style)
- an intermediate version for reviewing (required)
- final version (graded)
- 1 paper review (a colleague’s paper) (graded)
Schedule
The preliminary schedule for the seminar is as follows:
- Apr 14: Enterprise Applications, OLTP + OLAP, Share One DB
- Apr 21: No class.
- Apr 28: In-Memory Column Databases in Depth
From then on, the students will be guided in individual meetings with the supervisor.
- May 16th: Outline due
- June 9th: Short status presentations for feedback (into, related work, outline, measurements, next steps,...)
- July 10th: Draft papers due / draft papers will be distributed for review
- July 17th: Reviews due
- July 28th: Final presentations
- July 31th: Submission of final papers
Material: Presentation slides & seminar topics
