Hands-on experience in building a database management system from the ground up. Valuable for data engineering or database administration careers.
In the project assignments in CS186, you will write a basic database management system called SimpleDB. For this project, you will focus on implementing the core modules required to access stored data on disk; in future projects, you will add support for various query processing operators, as well as transactions, locking, and concurrent queries.
This course is recommended for students interested in database systems and design. It provides hands-on experience in building a database management system from the ground up, which can be valuable for those pursuing careers in data engineering or database administration.
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