1. Instructor: Elke Rundensteiner
Database Management Systems CS Spring 2017
Instructor: Elke Rundensteiner
Office: FL 135

2. Course Information External View: over the hood (cs3431)
How to utilize a database
How to configure a database
Internal View: under the hood (cs4432)
What is inside
How it works
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3. Course Information Who should attend?
Interested in working with data, database internals, and database related research
Scope
Database application design and development
Fundamental concepts in database theory
Internals of database management systems
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4. Data Courses at WPI Undergraduate : CS3431 and CS4432
Beginning graduate: CS542
Advanced graduate: CS561
Big data management: CS585
Big data analytics: CS586
Special topics courses: data streaming, information retrieval, distributed data management.
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5. Why are database systems important?
Traditional database systems managed :
Employee records
Bank records
Now we talk about
Web data stores
Social media
Management of tweets/electornic records
Scientific discovery
Medical records data integration
Big data

6. Databases are a strategic asset: “New gold”
The value of a company is defined by its data, for example:
Google, LinkedIn, Facebook, eBay, Amazon, ++
They who have the data have the power: “data is the new gold”
The power of the database systems comes from:
Its ease of retrieval
Its quality
Its consistency
What else?

7. DBMS and Applications database server ( SQL or noSQL )
applications communicate with the database server
applications can be in any programming language (java, C++, python )

8. DBMS System and Its Layers
DBMS presents a “controlled” (declarative) interface to the applications:
Typically SQL Or
programming interfaces for NoSQL databases

9. Course Information Class Meetings Office Hours for Instructor
Mo/Wed.: :20 pm at Salisbury Labs 402 
Office Hours for Instructor
after class 1:20 to 2:00pm
Location: here and then FL135
Teaching assistant Wen Liu ( )
Office hours to be posted on myWPI
Location: Atwater Kent 013
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10. Contact and Communication
You will be registered in mailing list:
CS542 ….. I’ll say ….. @cs.wpi.edu
Automatically, once enrolled in course.
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11. Course Material http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~cs542/s17 + lecture overheads
+ homework assignments
+ project guidelines
+ due dates
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12. MyWPI (Canvas) Will be used for: + communication/discussion board
+ team formation
+ submission of some assignments
+ grading center
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13. Textbook
R. Ramakrishnan & J. Gehrke DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS McGraw-Hill Publisher, Third Edition
Used & paperback copies are available
Book site
Useful on-line solutions on some problems.
Useful project sample code
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14. Database Systems: The Complete Book
Other Reading
Database Systems: The Complete Book
Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey D. Ullman and Jennifer D. Widom
Prentice Hall. 2nd Edition.
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15. Optional Readings
Understanding the New SQL: A Complete Guide J. Melton and A. R. Simon, Morgan-Kaufmann, 1993.
A Guide to the SQL Standard (third edition) C. J. Date and H. Darwen, Addison-Wesley, 1994.
Database Systems Impl. by Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeff Ullman and Jennifer Widom, (Prentice-Hall)
A First Course in Database Systems, by Ullman and Widom, (Prentice-Hall, 1999)
Fundamentals of Database Systems R. Elmasri, and S. Navathe, Benjamin Cummings, any edition.
Database System Concepts, 2nd Edition H.F. Korth, and A. Silberschatz, McGraw-Hill, any edition.
Principles of Data and Knowledge Base Systems, Volume 1, J.D. Ullman, Computer Science Press,
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16. Grading Policy Final grades based on 100 points:
25 points: Assignments and Quizzes
30 points: Course Project (Report, Presentations, and Demonstrations)
20 points: Midterm
20 points: Final
5 points: Course Participation & MyWPI Interactions
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17. Project Grading the difficulty of the project you have chosen
solution approach, design & implementation
oral project presentations
written documentation of your project
successful completion of your project goals
the demonstration of your system
the understanding of each team member of his or her part of the project
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18. Course Project
Team with 3 to 4 members
Form groups in about 2 weeks (once class enrollment settles)

19. Project Types
The design, implementation and evaluation of a database management application for a customer ( bonus for real one ! )
Implementation of some data component from “simpleDB” to some advanced stand-alone service
Benchmarking and comparison of big data tools
A research project

20. Course Project
Team with 3 to 4 members
Form groups in about 2 weeks (once class enrollment settles)

21. Project Schedule Four Deliverables:
Each accompanied by a write-up submitted beforehand
a (brief) presentation in class (and if needed, separate in front of instructor)
Each are a milestone on progress towards the full project
Time table (announced as we go along):
Form teams with project intent (~in 2 weeks) [ 0 % ]
Project Proposal. [ 10 % ]
Project Progress. [ 30 % ]
Final Project Hand-over. [ 60 % ]

22. Computing Platforms
Oracle Account at WPI ( all )
On your laptop (optional)
MySQL
Microsoft SQL Server
PostgreSQL
Access to cloud computing for project (optional)

23. Honesty, Late Policy, and Disability
Academic Honesty
All work is to be done on an individual basis; unless otherwise indicated.
No violation of WPI's guidelines for academic integrity.
Late Submission Policy
One day: 20%
Two days: 40%
Disability Policy
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