Implementing components of relational database systems (DBMS): record storage, indexing structures, query evaluation, joins algorithms, query optimization. Understanding and administering a DBMS: security, concurrency control, and crash recovery. Tuning DBMS for performance. Recent advances in data management: text-based information retrieval, web search, cloud computing, column store systems. This class focuses on data management from a database administrator's, or implementer's, perspective. Syllabus.pdf
