COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ADVANCED DISTRIBUTED DATABASES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CSE 5009 ADVANCED DISTRIBUTED DATABASES ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Course Objective

The main objectives of this course are centralization versus decentralization in databases, transparent functionalities of distributed databases, data fragmentation, distributed query processing, update synchronization and concurrency control, homogeneous and heterogeneous distributed databases: global network schema, schema mappings and query processing strategies.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Define Distributed Transaction Management
2   Realize Enhanced Concurrency Control
3   Realize Data Replication
4   Define Distributed Query Processing and Optimization
5   Realize Clustered, Federated and Parallel Database Systems

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Distributed DBMS Architecture
2 Distributed Database Design
3 Semantic Data Control
4 Overview of Query Processing
5 Query Decomposition and Data Localization
6 Optimization of Distributed Queries
7 Introduction to Transaction Management
8 Distributed Concurrency Control
9 Distributed DBMS Reliability
10 Database Interoperability
11 Designing Distributed Systems: Google Case Study
12 Current Trends in Distributed Databases

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s): Principles of Distributed Database Systems, M. Tamer Ozsu, Patrick Valduriez, ISBN-13: 9780136597070, Prentice Hall, 1999.
Supplementary Book(s): Distributed Systems Concepts and Design, G. Coulouris,J. Dollimore, T. Kindberg, G. Blair, Addison-Wesley, 2012.
References:
Materials:

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentation/Lecturing and Interactive discussion

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.50 + FIN * 0.50
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) ASG * 0.50 + RST * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Dokuz Eylül University, Department of Computer Engineering
Tınaztepe Campus 35160 Buca, Izmir
Tel:+90-(232) 301 74 01

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparing presentations 2 25 50
Preparing assignments 1 42 42
Reading 1 26 26
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 188

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.135545153
LO.233553
LO.35555255
LO.45224
LO.5114