COMS 4610: Principles and Internals of Database Systems
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: COMS 3110 and ENGL 2500 and SPCM 2120
Database design including entity-relationship model, relational data model, and non-relational data models, data dependency, and normalization. Database management including physical storage, access methods, query processing, and transaction management. Database systems of special purposes such as spatial databases, mobile object databases, and multimedia databases. Introduction to current database research such as cloud data management and Internet information retrieval.