In-Memory Data Processing and Management Seminar (Sommersemester 2010)

Lecturer:
Course Website: http://epic.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/Home/InMemoryDataProcessing2010

General Information

Weekly Hours: 2
Credits: 3
Graded: yes
Enrolment Deadline: 10.05.2010
Teaching Form:
Enrolment Type: Compulsory Elective Module

Programs

IT-Systems Engineering MA

Description

This seminar covers a broad range of advanced database topics in the context of 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:

Read/write compaction in column databases
Lightweight compression techniques for in-memory databases
In-memory databases in the cloud
- The CAP theorem and update propagation in multi-master setups
- De-clustering of tenant data for throughput optimization
- Placement of tenant data for high availability
- Effects of virtualization on in-memory databases
Data model evolution in OLTP and OLAP
Database self-tuning capabilities
Optimal execution of SQL queries with a great number of WHERE-conditions
XPath interface for querying traces stored in SQlite

Requirements

Completed Bachelor studies
Participation in courses Datenbanksysteme I and II is helpful

Examination

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)
Paper (6 pages in ACM two-column style)
- an intermediate version for reviewing(required)
- final version (graded)
1 paper reviews (a colleague’s paper) (graded)

Dates

The preliminary schedule for the seminar is as follows:

Apr 22: Enterprise Applications, OLTP + OLAP, Share One DB (Jan Schaffner)
Apr 29: In-Memory Column Databases in Depth (Jens Krüger)
May 06: Towards Enterprise Software-as-a-Service in the Cloud (Jan Schaffner)
May 13: No class (Christi Himmelfahrt)
May 27: Presentation of seminar topics

From then on, the students will be guided in individual meetings with their supervisors.

Jun 17: Short status presentations for feedback (~15 mins)
Jun 24: Draft papers due / draft papers will be distributed for review
Jul 1: Your reviews due
July 15th: Final presentations (first half of the participants)
July 22nd: Final presentations (second half of the participants)
July 23rd: Submission of final papers

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