CIS560 – Database Systems Concepts - Computing and Information ...

1. Credits and contact hours
CIS560 – Database Systems Concepts
3 credits; 3 hours recitation per week
2. Text book, title, author, and year
Database Systems: The Complete Book (DS:CB), by Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeff Ullman,
and Jennifer Widom. Second edition. Pearson Prentice Hall (2009).
a. Other supplemental materials:
Toward the Next Generation of Recommender Systems: A Survey of the State-ofthe-Art
and Possible Extensions, Gediminas Adomavicius and Alexander Tuzhilin,
IEEE transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 17, No. 6, 2005.
3. Specific course information
a. brief description of the content of the course (Catalog Description)
Concepts, approaches, and techniques in database management. Representation of
information as data, data storage techniques, foundations of logical data models,
data retrieval, database design, transaction management, integrity and security.
b. prerequisites: CIS 300, CIS 301, and MATH 312 or 510.
4. Specific goals for the course
a. specific outcomes of instruction, ex. The student will be able to explain the
significance of current research about a particular topic.
Students will gain a thorough understanding of database management systems
(DBMS) from two perspectives: user perspective (how to use a database
system) and system perspective (how to build a database system)
Students will experiment with SQL from a programming environment.
Students will become aware of the power of database systems through
practical database applications.
Students will explore content-based and collaborative-filtering recommender
systems in the context of advanced database applications.
Students will learn about current research direction in database systems
through a review of several advanced topics.
b. explicitly indicate which of the student outcomes or any other outcomes are
addressed by the course.
(a) An ability to apply knowledge of computing and mathematics appropriate to
the discipline
(c) An ability to design, implement, and evaluate a computer-based system,
process, component, or program to meet desired needs

(i) An ability to use current techniques, skills, and tools necessary for computing
practice
(j) An ability to apply mathematical foundations, algorithmic principles, and
computer science theory in the modeling and design of computer-based systems
in a way that demonstrates comprehension of the tradeoffs involved in design
choices.
(k) An ability to apply design and development principles in the construction of
software systems of varying complexity.
5. Brief list of topics to be covered
Database Systems from a user perspective:
Relational Model
Relational Algebra
SQL and DBMS Functionalities:
o SQL Programming
o Queries and Updates
o Indexes and Views
Constraints and Triggers
Relational Database Design
o ER and UML diagrams
o Functional dependencies and normalization
Embedded SQL
Database Systems from a system perspective:
Data storage and indexing
Query execution
Query optimization
(Transaction management)
Special topics:
XML/XPath/XQuery
Parallel and Distributed DB
Information Integration
Data warehousing/Data mining
Object relational mappers (SQLalchemy).
NoSQL databases
MapReduce/Hadoop/HBase/Pig Latin