>>> I am signed up for the course (which starts next Monday). If people
>>> were
>>> interested, I thought we could discuss some of the topics during the
>>> semester on or off this list.
It would be great to hear of and discuss interesting topics.
I'd be particular interested in pointers to how the changing server
world is changing databases. There's a lot more RAM.
In applications we see, and we tend to see ones connected to UIs so it's
a bit skew, the database is cachable in-memory. The disk is then for
moving the state between reboots. Should we design for this and have
different in-memory and on-disk datastructures, with the disk one being
an design to be used to recreate in-memory and not as at the moment
where the disk structure reflects the memory structure.
Ditto the emergence of flash memory - what does it change?
And for anything a generic question - what can we address given the
resources? = what's the key one or two things to do?
Andy
>>> [1] http://www.amazon.com/Database-Systems-Complete-Book-
>>> 2nd/dp/0131873253/
That's a good book - I use the 1st edition (merely 1152 pages long).
On 07/10/11 21:36, Paolo Castagna wrote:
Stephen Allen wrote:
Forgot the link to the course! You can sign up at:
http://www.db-class.org
It's free and you can watch videos at 1.5x speed up. Useful (and fun!). :-)
... ah, you need to wait until last lesson (in December) for "NoSQL
Systems".
There isn't much on "distributed|parallel databases".
The website offer a good experience for people interested.
Thanks for the link.
Paolo
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Allen [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 4:12 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Stanford Class - Introduction to Databases
All,
I thought people might be interested in an online class Stanford is
offering
called "Introduction to Databases". It is taught by Jennifer Widom,
who is
one of the coauthors of one of the best database books I've read [1].
Because SPARQL is based on relational algebra, I found the book to be
extremely valuable in understanding how a SPARQL query engine works
(especially query optimization). A lot of the other topics are also
very
relevant to work on Jena: physical data storage, costs for different
join
algorithms, and transactions.
I am signed up for the course (which starts next Monday). If people
were
interested, I thought we could discuss some of the topics during the
semester on or off this list.
-Stephen
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Database-Systems-Complete-Book-
2nd/dp/0131873253/
