Topics in Distributed Databases (P00903)

? Credit Points : 10 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : INF-P-TDD

This course covers not only the basic technology required for distributed databases, but also some of the emerging technology of database integration and peer-to-peer technology for highly distributed databases.

Entry Requirements

? Pre-requisites : Database Systems or Applied Databases. For Informatics PG students and final year MInf students only, or by special permission of the School.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Computer Science, (School of Informatics, Schedule O)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
15/01/2009	09:00	10:50	Room 4.12, Appleton Tower	Central

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Thursday	09:00	10:50	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to:
* Describe emerging issues in distributed databases: data integration, data provenance and annotation, view maintenance and distributed query evaluation and optimisation.
* Describe the problems faced in data integration, as well as model solutions to these problems.
* Describe the need for provenance and annotation in contemporary database technology.
* Translate between data models given examples.
* Demonstrate the issues involved in data publishing for distributed query processing.
* Demonstrate the problems of view maintenance and the partial solutions that have been developed.
* Demonstrate their knowledge of distributed query processing in specific database areas such as data stream management and peer-to-peer database systems.
* Describe the issues involved in distributed query optimisation regarding cost modeling and algorithms for query evaluation.