Advanced Databases for Data Science

This course explores intermediate-level design and implementation of database systems, emphasizing scalable, distributed systems. Hands-on exercises in the course deepen students' knowledge of advanced relational database management and discuss current and emerging practices for dealing with big data and large-scale database systems. Concepts include design and implementation of relational databases, exploration of distributed data structures including graph, document, and key-value storage models and scalable and resilient query processing.