Advanced Database - Syllabus

Revisiting the basics of Entity Relationship Model, including entities, attributes, and relationships. This topic lays the foundation for advanced database concepts.

Understanding the concepts of subclasses, superclasses, and inheritance in the context of Entity Relationship Model. This topic explores the relationships between entities.

Learning about specialization and generalization, including their constraints and characteristics. This topic delves into the nuances of entity relationships.

Exploring the concept of union types in Entity Relationship Model. This topic discusses the representation of complex relationships.

Understanding aggregation in Entity Relationship Model, including its applications and implications. This topic examines the grouping of entities.

Revisiting the basics of Relational Model, including tables, rows, and columns. This topic provides a comprehensive overview of relational databases.

Learning how to convert Entity Relationship Model and Enhanced Entity Relationship Model to Relational Model. This topic explores the process of database design.

Exploring advanced features of SQL, including querying and data manipulation. This topic delves into the intricacies of database management.

Understanding the concepts of file structures, hashing, and indexing in the context of database systems. This topic examines data storage and retrieval.

Introduction to object database concepts, including the basics of object-oriented databases and their differences from traditional relational databases.

Extensions to SQL for object databases, including support for complex data types and object-oriented features.

The Object Data Management Group (ODMG) object model and the Object Definition Language (ODL), including their role in defining object databases.

Conceptual design principles for object databases, including data modeling and schema design.

The Object Query Language (OQL), including its syntax, features, and use cases for querying object databases.

Language binding in the ODMG standard, including the integration of object databases with programming languages.

Concept of query processing, including the steps involved in processing a query and the role of the query processor.

Query trees and heuristics for query optimization, including the use of query trees to represent queries and heuristics to guide optimization.

Choice of query execution plans, including the factors that influence the choice of plan and the importance of plan selection.

Cost-based optimization, including the use of cost estimates to guide optimization and the role of cost-based optimization in query processing.

A type of programmatic advertising that enables the buying and selling of online advertising inventory in real-time.

Using email to promote products or services, including email campaign strategy, creation, and optimization.

Partnering with affiliates to promote products or services, including affiliate network models and commission structures.

Using social media platforms to promote products or services, including social media strategy, content creation, and engagement metrics.

Using mobile devices to promote products or services, including mobile-optimized websites, apps, and advertising formats.

Introduction to distributed database concepts and their advantages.

Techniques for data fragmentation, replication, and allocation in distributed databases.

Methods and approaches for designing distributed databases.

Overview of different types of distributed database systems.

Introduction to various architectures used in distributed databases.

Overview of NOSQL systems and their characteristics.

Understanding the CAP theorem and its implications on NOSQL systems.

Introduction to document-based NOSQL systems and their features.

Understanding key-value stores and their use cases.

This topic covers the concepts of active databases, including triggers, and their applications in advanced database systems.

This topic explores the concepts and techniques of temporal databases, which manage time-varying data and support temporal queries.

This topic introduces the concepts and techniques of spatial databases, which manage spatial data and support spatial queries and analysis.

This topic covers the concepts and techniques of multimedia databases, which manage multimedia data such as images, audio, and video.

This topic explores the concepts and techniques of deductive databases, which use logical rules to derive new information from existing data.

This topic provides an introduction to the concepts and techniques of information retrieval and web search, including indexing, querying, and ranking.