Advanced Database Systems

This subject is not offered in 2012.

120 hours.

One of the following:

AND

Completion of 50 points of third year computing study or equivalent.

GRADUATE

Admission to Masters degree.

None

None

433-421 Web Technologies and Applications
433-461 High Performance Database Systems
433-621 Web Technologies and Applications
433-661 High Performance Database Systems

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Students Experiencing Academic Disadvantage Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Description, Subject Objectives, Generic Skills and Assessment Requirements of this entry.The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the Disability support scheme can be found at the Disability Liaison Unit Website:http://www.services.unimelb.edu.au/disability/

Many applications require access to very large amounts of data. These applications often require reliability (data must not be lost even in the presence of hardware failures), and the ability to retrieve and process the data very efficiently.

The subject will cover the technologies used in advanced database systems. Topics covered will include: transactions, including concurrency, reliability (the ACID properties) and performance; and indexing of both structured and unstructured data. The subject will also cover additional topics such as: uncertain data; Xquery; the Semantic Web and the Resource Description Framework; dataspaces and data provenance; datacentres; and data archiving.

On completion of this subject students should be able to:

• Describe the concepts and technologies underpinning new forms of Web data
• Explain database transaction and recovery techniques and concepts

• Two written assignments, due in approximately weeks 6 and 11, of approximately 1750 words each (20% each)
• And a 2-hour end-of-semester open-book written examination (60%).

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

On completion of the subject the student should have the:

• Ability to undertake problem identification, formulation, and solution
• Ability to utilise a systems approach to complex problems and to design and operational performance
• Ability to manage information and documentation
• Capacity for creativity and innovation
• Ability to communicate effectively, with the engineering team and with the community at large