Distributed Data Management

News (Plan for Summer Semester 2015)

This lecture is being offered again in Summer Semester 2015 by Prof. Sebastian Michel. Please find the new website of this lecture (and Prof. Michel's group) under: dbis.informatik.uni-kl.de/index.php/en/teaching/summer-2015/distributed-data-management

Content

This guest lecture was held by Sebastian Michel (Saarland University) in the summer semester 2013. It can be placed in the topic area "Information Systems" of both the "Information and Communication Systems" specialization of the Master in Computer Science and the "Information Management" specialization of the Master in Applied Computer Science. The teaching language is english. Additional information is availble in the KIS and the module handbook of the Computer Science Department.

This course addresses fundamental concepts of distributed data management. Emphasis is put on novel approaches/paradigms to managing Big Data. The course aims at a mixture of system issues and hands on experience (like Hadoop/HDFS) and on fundamental algorithms and techniques (such as consistent hashing or Bloom filters).

  • Big Data
  • MapReduce (Hadoop, HDFS, …)
  • Various algorithms on top of MR (such as PageRank)
  • NoSQL Stores
  • (Eventual) Consistency Models
  • Synopses: Bloomfilter, count-min sketch, KMV, ...
  • Distributed Data Stream Processing: STREAM, Storm, ...
  • Peer-to-Peer Data Management: Gossip protocols, consistent hashing
  • …

News

Date

Announcement

September 24, 2013

Last chance for an oral exam
The last possibility for an oral exam is October, 16, 2013. If you don't have an exam date yet and you want to have one, please write me an email.

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June 26, 2013

No lecture on June 27
There will be no lecture on June 27. The fifth exercise lession will be held on July 09. On July 16, instead of the exercise lesson, there will be a little repetition and time for questions.
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June 14. 2013

Exam registration
You didn't receive a mail with the exam-registration link? Write me an email.

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April 18, 2013

Mailing list

To register for the lecture's mailing list, please write us an email..

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April 15, 2013

Start of exercise lessons
The exercises will be on the following days: May 7, 21, June 4, 18, July 2, 16.

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March 08, 2013

Start of the course

The course lectures will start on Thursday, April 18, 2013.

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Organizational matters

Course hours
Thursday, 11:45 - 13:15, 48-379
Beginning at April 18, 2013

Exercise hours
Tuesday (bi-weekly), 15:30 - 17:00, 52-203
Beginning at May 7, 2013

Contact person

Sebastian Michel

Johannes Schildgen