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

Dozent:
Website zum Kurs: http://epic.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/Home/InMemoryDataProcessing2010

Allgemeine Information

• Semesterwochenstunden: 2
• ECTS: 3
• Benotet: Ja
• Einschreibefrist: 10.05.2010
• Lehrform:
• Belegungsart: Wahlpflichtmodul

Studiengänge

• IT-Systems Engineering MA

Beschreibung

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

Voraussetzungen

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

Leistungserfassung

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)

Termine

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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