6.893 Database Systems (H)

L MW11-12:30, Room 32-144
Professor Samuel Madden, Room 32-G938, madden@csail.mit.edu
Prereq.:

This subject qualifies as an Computer Systems and Architecture Engineering Concentration subject.

Topics related to the engineering and design of database systems, including: data models; database and schema design; schema normalization and integrity constraints; query processing; query optimization and cost estimation; transactions; recovery; concurrency control; isolation and consistency; distributed, parallel, and heterogeneous databases; adaptive databases; trigger systems; pub-sub systems; semi-structured data and XML querying. Lecture and readings from original research papers. Semester-long project and paper. Enrollment may be limited.