Spring 2023 - CMPT 984 G100
Special Topics in Databases, Data Mining, Computational Biology (3)
Class Number: 6934
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Jan 4 – Apr 11, 2023: Thu, 8:30–11:20 a.m.
Burnaby
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Instructor:
Tianzheng Wang
tzwang@sfu.ca
Description
COURSE DETAILS:
This is a systems-oriented, seminar-style special topics course on the recent advances in the design and implementation of database systems. Specifically, we focus on online analytical processing and hybrid transactional and analytical workloads. The course will discuss recent and classic papers and systems in this area and analyse their relative merits. Topics include database architecture and techniques, query processing, data lakes, federated query processing, various operators and scheduling techniques, among others. We will focus on the impact of the changing hardware, programming languages and related software primitives on these systems, such as manycore/multicore processors, persistent memory, flash memory, high-speed, low-latency networks (e.g., RDMA), programmable networks and hardware accelerators (e.g., FPGAs), as well as new programming language features (e.g., coroutines). Working knowledge of database systems (e.g., CMPT 740 or equivalent) is assumed.
Topics- Database systems
- Modern processors, storage hierarchy and networking
- Data analytics systems
- Query processing
Grading
NOTES:
To be discussed in the first week of class.
Materials
REQUIRED READING NOTES:
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Graduate Studies Notes:
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Registrar Notes:
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