Data Management (academic year 2017/2018)


For whom is this course. This 6 credits course is for the students of the Master of Science in Engineering of Computer Science (School of Engineering) of the Sapienza Università di Roma. This course is also for students of Ingegneria Gestionale of the same School. The language for both the course and the exam is English. The lectures will be held in the first semester (September 2017 - December 2017).
Prerequisites. A good knowledge of the fundamentals of Programming Structures (algorithms and data structures), Programming Languages, Databases (SQL, relational data model, Entity-Relationship data model, conceptual and logical database design), Theoretical Computer Science (computational complexity, computability) is required.
Course goals. The course presents the basic concepts of database systems. Several major issues related to the theory and the design of database systems are covered, including concurrency control, recovery, file and index organizations, query processing.

  • News
    • February 15, 2018. The exam of March-April (for "fuori corso " and part-time students) will be held on March 29, 2019, at 9:00am, in classroom 3, Istituto Castelnuovo (Sapienza main campus). Students can book for the exam through the Infostud system within March 26, 2019. Only students who will book for the exam will be allowed to participate in the exam, and there will be no exception to this rule.
    • December 22, 2017. The lectures of the course are over. I would like to thank all the students who have regularly attended the lectures. I had good time with you!
  • Lecture material
    • M. Lenzerini, Lecture notes (slides to download)
      Students can download the course slides by accessing the MOODLE system at this page.
      The slides will be available during the lecture period. Please, note that all students of Sapienza can access the MOODLE system by using the user name and the password of the university
    • R. Ramakrishnan, J. Gehrke. Database Management Systems. McGraw-Hill, 2004
    • Students willing to read more about concurrency control can freely download an excellent book from the following site: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/philbe/ccontrol.aspx
      If one is looking for a more modern book, which is not free, a good suggestion is:
      Gerhard Weikum, Gottfried Vossen, "Transactional Information Systems: Theory, Algorithms, and the Practice of Concurrency Control and Recovery", The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems.
  • Lectures
    • Monday: [08:00am - 10:00am], via Eudossiana 18, classroom 11,
    • Tuesday: [02:00pm - 04:00pm], via Eudossiana 18, classroom 29,
    • Friday: [10:00am -- 11:00am] via Eudossiana 18, classroom 41.

    Week Monday (08:00am - 10:00am) classroom 11 Tuesday (02:00pm - 04:00pm) classroom 29 Friday (10:00am - 11:00am) classroom 41
    01 (Sep 25) Lectures 1,2
    - Course overview
    - Relational data model
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    		 Lectures 3
    - Recap of relational algebra and SQL
    02 (Oct 02) Lectures 4,5
    - Buffer management
    - Transaction management     		Lectures 6,7
    - Serializability
    - View equivalence and serializability     		Lectures 8
    - Monotonicity of classes of schedules
    - Algorithms for view serializability
    03 (Oct 09) Lectures 9,10
    - Conflict equivalence
    - Conflict serializability
    - Conflict serializability theorem     		Lectures 11,12
    - Locking protocols
    - The two-phase locking protocol     		Lectures 13
    - Deadlock in locking protocols
    - Exercises on concurrency
    04 (Oct 16) Lectures 14,15
    - Recoverability
    - Strict and rigorous schedules
    - Strict 2PL protocol
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    		 Lectures 16
    - Timestamp-based scheduler
    - Multiversion concurrency control
    - Concurrency in SQL
    05 (Oct 23) Lectures 17,18
    - Recovery in DBMSs
    - Introduction to file organizations     		Lectures 19,20
    - Simple file organizations
    - 2-way external sorting     		Lectures 21
    - k-way external sorting
    - The notion of index
    - Types of indexes
    06 (Oct 30) Lectures 22,23
    - The notion of index
    - Types of indexes     		Lectures 24,25
    - Clustering sorted indexes
    - Non-clustering sorted indexes
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    07 (Nov 06) Lectures 26,27
    - Clustered files
    - Exercises on sorting and sorted indexes     		Lectures 28,29
    - MongoDB: a non-relational database management system
    (Prof. Domenico Lembo)     		Lectures 30
    - Tree-based indexes
    08 (Nov 13) Lectures 31,32
    - Hash-based indexes
    - Exercises on file organizations     		Lectures 33,34
    - Exercises on file organizations     		Lectures 35
    - Evaluation of relational operators: classification of algorithms
    09 (Nov 20) Lectures 36,37
    - One pass algorithms     		Lectures 38,39
    - Evaluation of relational operators: nested loop algorithms     		Lectures 40
    - Evaluation of relational operators:nested loop join
    10 (Nov 27) Lectures 41,42
    - Evaluation of relational operators: two pass algorithms based on sorting     		Lectures 43,44
    - Evaluation of relational operators: two pass algorithms based on hashing     		Lectures 45
    - Index-based algorithms
    11 (Dec 04) Lectures 46,47
    - Multi-pass algorithms     		Lectures 48,49
    - Exercises on evaluation of relational operators
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    12 (Dec 11) Lectures 50,51
    - Parallel processing for relational operators     		Lectures 52,53
    - Producing logical plans for SQL queries     		Lectures 54
    - Estimating the size of results of relational expressions
    12 (Dec 18) Lectures 55,56
    - Physical query plans     		Lectures 57,58
    - Exercises on physical query plans

    		Lectures 59
    - Exercises on logical and physical query plans
  • Exercises
  • Topics covered
    • 1. The structure of a Data Base Management System (DBMS)
    • 2. Concurrency management: The concept of transaction, The notion of serializability, Concurrency management strategies
    • 3. Recovery: Crash management, Classification of failures, Recovery strategies
    • 4. Buffer management: buffer pool, replacement strategies, operations on the buffer
    • 5. Physical structures for data bases: Record and page organizations, Simple file organizations, Indexed file organizations
    • 6. Query processing: Evaluation of relational algebra operators, logical and physical query plans
    • 7. NoSQL databases: The case of document-oriented databases and MongoDB
  • Exam
    • Final exam: the final exam is constituted by a written exam, and a possible oral examinations. Students have 2 hours for completing the written exam
    • Past written exams: you can have a look at the texts of past exams
    • To book for the exam: Please, follow the on-line booking procedure.
    • Schedule of exams:
      • First written exam: January 12, 2018, 2:00pm, classroom III, Istituto Castelnuovo, Facoltà di Matematica, Main Campus Sapienza
      • Second written exam: February 6, 2018, 2:00pm, classroom III, Istituto Castelnuovo, Facoltà di Matematica, Main Campus Sapienza
      • Special exam session (only for "fuori corso" or "part-time" students): April 17, 2018
      • Third written exam: June 15, 2018, at 9am
      • Fourth written exam: July 13, 2018, at 9am
      • Fifth written exam: September 6, 2018, at 2:00pm
      • Second special exam session (only for "fuori corso" and "part-time" students): October 19, 2018
      • Sixth written exam: January 11, 2019, at 2pm, classroom 3, Istituto Castelnuovo
      • Seventh written exam: February 5, 2019, at 2pm, classroom 3, Istituto Castelnuovo
      • Third special exam session (only for "fuori corso" or "part-time" students): March 29, 2019
  • Information about course evaluation by students
  • Information on past editions of this course
  • Office hours. Tuesday, 5:00 pm, at the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica Automatica e Gestionale "Antonio Ruberti", via Ariosto 25, Roma, second floor, room B203 (if available), or room B217 (otherwise) -- please, look at the last minute news for the next office hours