64-340 Lecture Databases and Information Systems

Instructors: Prof. Dr. Norbert Ritter; Dr. Fabian Panse

Event type: Lecture

Displayed in timetable as: DIS VL

Hours per week: 4

Credits: 4,5

Language of instruction: English

Min. | Max. participants: - | 160

Comments/contents:
This course is based on the earlier "Foundations of Database Systems" course and deals with current database technology, internal aspects of database management systems as well as advanced database applications like data warehouses and data mining.

Major topics are:

• architecture and components of database management systems
  
• transaction management
  
• distributed database and transaction systems
  
• NoSQL
  
• data warehouses
  
• data mining
  
• probabilistic databases
  
• similarity search in multimedia data
  

Learning objectives:
to be able to

• design and develop database and data warehouse applications
  
• apply mining techniques
  
• manage large volumes of distributed data by modern software systems
  
• apply information inquiry techniques in different application areas
  
• assess database management systems w.r.t. the needs of different application areás
  
• understand internal database management techniques (e.g. concurrency control, logging and recovery)
  
• assess (data) mining techniques w.r.t the quality of their results.
  

Didactic concept:
Lecture with practical exercises
Slides and further material will be provided online

Literature:
will be announced at beginning.

Additional examination information:
there will be a written examination (120 minutes) at the end of the term