COMP 5305

Advanced Database Systems

0.5 credit · Graduate

In-depth study on developments in database systems shaping the future of information systems, including complex object, object-oriented, object-relational, and semi-structured databases. Data structures, query languages, implementation and applications.

Topics

complex object
object-oriented
object-relational
semi-structured databases

Course catalogue

2022

Readings

Complex Value Databases: Foundations of Databases, S. Abiteboul, R. Hull, and V. Vianu, Addison-Wesley,
Object-Oriented Databases: Building an Object-Oriented Database System: The Story of O2, Francois Bancilhon, Claude Delobel, and Paris Kanellakis, Morgan Kaufmann, 1992.
Object-Oriented Database Management, A. Kemper and G. Moerkotte, Prentice Hall, 1994.
Object Database Standard ODMG 3.0, R.G.G. Cattell, et al., Morgan Kaufmann,
XML databases: An Introduction to XML and Web Technologies Anders Moller and Michael Schwartzbach Addison-Wesley, 2006.
XQuery Priscilla Walmsley, O'Reilly, 2007.

Sources

Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
Advanced Database Systems ↗2022