FIT3176 · Advanced database design

Overview

This unit will introduce advanced concepts in the areas of database design, including document-store, column-store, and graph database design; implementations in non-relational database systems.

Areas of study: Software development

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Describe various non-relational database systems, including NoSQL;
2. Compare and contrast between relational and non-relational database design and model;
3. Design database systems using document-store and column-store design techniques;
4. Explain transactions systems in non-relational systems;
5. Implement and manipulate document-store and column-store database systems;
6. Investigate graph model in database systems;
7. Demonstrate graph query processing.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled online and face to face learning activities and independent study. Independent study may include associated reading and preparation for scheduled teaching activities. Labs start from week 2.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.