CS4420 Database System Implementation (Spring 2004)

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General Information

Instructor: Professor Ling Liu
Office: CCB 221, Phone: 5-1139, Email:lingliu@cc.gatech.edu
Lecture location : CCB 102
Lecture hours: Tuesday and Thursday 3:05pm -- 4:25pm
Office hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 4:30pm - 5:30pm, or by appointment

Course TAs:

   Weiling Zhu(wzhu@cc.gatech.edu, CCB226D), Office hour: Fri. 2:00pm-4:00pm
   James Caverlee(caverlee@cc.gatech.edu, CCB 225B), Office hour: Tues. 1:00pm-3:00pm
 
Prerequisite(s): CS 4400
Newsgroup git.cc.class.cs4420
The newsgroup will be used to post class announcements, answer common questions, make corrections to project phase reports (if needed). Students are encouraged to conduct discussions about class material.

Course Evaluation online Click Here.

Text Book

Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey D. Ullman, and Jennifer Widom, Database System Implementation, Prentice Hall, 2000.

Administrative Issues

Grading Policy:
Midterm 1
20%
6th Week:  Feb 12 Thursday
Midterm 2
20%
13th Week: March 30 Tuesday
Project
40%
16th Week: April 22 Thursday
Final
20%
17th Week: April 26 Monday 11:30am-2:20pm
For each of the above, there will be a deadline for appealing your grade. No appeals will be considered after this deadline unless there is a medical or other excuse for absence during the appeal period.
Re-examination: No re-examination except as per regulations.

On-line Information: Course-related information, as well as the assignments, will be maintained on-line in a form that is accessible via the Web page for CS 4420. The URL for this page is: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2004/cs4420_spring/.

You are recommended to check this page regularly. The on-line availability of the notes will be announced in class, but there won't be any handouts.

Policy on Collaboration:

Course Description:

In this course we will study four major topics relating to database system implementation. The emphasis is on the ``systems'' components of a database management system. To better understand these components, a database implementation project will be required where you will build some of the basic ``system'' components for a simple database management system. We start with a brief review of relational database concepts and an overview of the basic components of a database system. The first major area of study deals with storage management. How data is stored (organized) on secondary storage plays an important role in processing database queries efficiently. We will examine the various file structure alternatives involving indexing and hashing. The second area deals with the query processing component of a relational database system. Here, we are interested in two topics: transformations which are applied to a user query to make it execute more efficiently and algorithms which implement various relational algebra operators efficiently. Both of these topics fall within the realm of the query optimizer. The third topic involves concurrency control. For instance, how can multiple transactions execute on a database and still see a consistent view of the data, as well as to leave the database in a consistent state. We examine several concurrency control schemes and their tradeoffs. The fourth area deals with the recovery manager of a database system. The main concern is how the database system recovers from a failure, e.g., a transaction failure, a system crash, etc. We examine the advantages and disadvantages of several recovery schemes. If time permits, we will discuss the various issues in database performance tuning and how parallel relational database systems can be used to improve the performance of query and transaction processing.
Topic
Chapter
Introduction to DBMS Implementation
1
Relational DB Review
2
Data Storage
3
Representing Data Elements
4
Index Structures
5
Query Execution
6
Query Compiler
7
Coping with System Failures
8
Concurrency Control
9
Transaction Management
10
Information Integration
11

Project (demo schedule | demo requirements)

This is a group project. Groups of 3-4 students are required. You will choose one of the two proposed projects listed below. You need to send an email no later than Jan. 29 to the instructor (lingliu@cc.gatech.edu) and TAs (caverlee@cc.gatech.edu,wzhu@cc.gatech.edu), including the following information about your group: 
1. Project Description
Proposed Project Option 1: HTML or PDF
* Download B+ tree code (in C) and sample input for testing
Proposed Project Option 2: HTML or PDF
* Get related software
2. Project Resources:
C Tutorial 1 and C Tutorial 2
C++ Tutorial
Java Tutorials
3. Project Schedule
Phase
Begin
End 
Report Due Date
Phase I
1/15
2/26
2/26, Thur., Phase I report due by midnight(email to TAs)
Phase II
2/26
4/22
 
Project Demo


(one day)
4/22 10am
4/22 4pm
Location: TBA, half an hour for each demo
4/23 project report and code due
4. ProjectGroups
5. Grading
Phase I (report): 35% of project grade (14 points of total grade)
Phase II (report+demo+coding): 65% of project grade (26 points of total grade)

Notes