CS F212: Database Systems

Today’s Class
 Course operational details
 Introduction
 overview of DBMS

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 Course staff
Instructor-in-charge : Dr. Amit Dua (amit.dua@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in)
Instructor : Dr. Yashvardhan Sharma(yash@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in)
Lab Instructors : Jaya Pathak (p20200412@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in)
Upendra Singh (p20170428@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in) Trishna Paul
(p20210082@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in)
Group of Professional Assistants

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General Info.
• Course website: https://nalanda-aws.bits-pilani.ac.in/
• Office Hrs: Friday 5pm to 6pm @6111-C
• Text Book: Silberschatz A, Korth H F, &Sudarshan S, Database System
Concepts, 7e, TMH, 2019.

http://www.db-book.com
http://www.mhhe.com/silberschatz

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 Reference Books
• Ramakrishna R. & Gehrke J.
Database Management Systems, 3e, Mc-Graw Hill, 2014.
http://www/cs.wisc.edu/~dbbook

• Elmarsi R, & Navathe S B.

Fundamental of Database System, 7e, Pearson Education, 2016.
http://www.aw.com/cssupport

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 Course Salient features
• Emphasis on theoretical concepts and implementation
details
• Foundational concepts
• ER-Modeling+Relational Model + Normalization
• Query Language – RA, SQL
• Application Development
• Database System Implementation
• Database design and tuning
• Structured labs & Project Assignments
• Reading Assignments

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Why Study Databases?? ?
• Simply fascinating
• Commercially very relevant !!
• DBMS encompasses most of CS
• OS, languages, theory, AI, multimedia, logic
• Significance of Databases with Internet
• Datasets increasing in diversity and volume.
• Numeric and Textual Databases
• Multimedia Databases
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• Data warehousing, Data mining, Business Intelligence, DSS
• Digital libraries, interactive video, Human Genome project
• ... need for DBMS exploding

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Tsunami of Data
• Telecom data ( 4.6 bn mobile subscribers)
 There are 3 Billion Telephone Calls in US each day,
30 Billion emails daily, 1 Billion SMS, IMs.
 IP Network Traffic: up to 1 Billion packets per hour per router. Each ISP has many
(hundreds) routers!
• WWW
• Weblog data (160 mn websites)
• Email data
• Satellite imaging data
• Social networking sites data
• Genome data
• CERN’s LHC (15 petabytes/year)
Tsunami of Data
• No. of pics on Facebook
• 15 bn unique photos
• 60 bn photos stored (4 sizes)
 Imageshack (20 bn)
• Photobucket (7.2 bn)
• Flickr (3.4 bn)
• Multiply (3 bn)
What we Study in this course?? ?
• Foundations
• Data Models: ER, Relational Models
• Query languages : RA, SQL
• Design & Development
• Normalization, Application Development
• Efficiency & Scalability
• Indexing
• Query evaluation
• Concurrency & Robustness
• Transaction Management – concurrency, recovery
• Advanced Database Concepts – XML, Data
Warehousing, Data Mining, Big Data
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Who Needs Database Systems
Corporate databases
Web data management
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Typical Applications:
Personnel management
Inventory and purchase order
Insurance policies and customer data
……
Typical Applications:
Web page management
Personalize web pages
……
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Examples of Database Applications
• Purchases from the supermarket
• Purchases using your credit card
• Booking a holiday at the travel agents
• Using the local library
• Taking out insurance
• Using the Internet
• Studying at university

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Database Definition

Database: collection of related data

Data: recorded facts with meaning

1. Represents real-world (mini world)

2. Well planned, clear, and some meaning
3. For a purpose

Any size and complexity

What is a Database, DBMS, Database Systems?
• A very large, integrated collection of structured
data.
• Gigabytes (230 or 109), Terabytes, Petabytes
• Models real-world enterprise.
• Entities (e.g., students, courses)
• Relationships (e.g., Mohan is taking ISC332)
• A Database Management System (DBMS) is a
software package designed to store and manage
large databases with complex features.
• Goal : Store and Retrieve database information
conveniently and efficiently

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 Basic Definitions

• Database System: The DBMS software together with the data

itself. Sometimes, the applications are also included.

database system
database
Application
DBMS data
catalog

e.g., the student records database system

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