CSc 560:

Database Systems Implementation

Instructor: Prof. Bongki Moon

bkmoon@cs.arizona.edu
University of Arizona

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Why Databases??

Shift from computation to information
– More and more data brought to on-line.
– Data management needs for large-scale applications.
 Scientific simulations, medical information, etc.

Datasets increasing in diversity and volume.
– Digital libraries, interactive video, Human Genome
project, NASA EOSDIS, etc.
– Decision making: data warehousing and mining.
– Semi-structured data (XML)
– Mobile, sensor and streaming data

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 These layers
Structure of a DBMS must consider
concurrency
control and
recovery

A typical DBMS has a Query Optimization
layered architecture. and Execution

The figure does not Relational Operators
show the concurrency
control and recovery Files and Access Methods
components. Buffer Management

This is one of several
Disk Space Management
possible architectures;
each system has its own
variations.
DB

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Goals of the CSc 560 Course

What you will get:
– Deep understanding of DBMS architectures and
important algorithms (buffer, indexing, Xact,…),
– Hands-on experience of basic DBMS implementation
techniques (record, index management, query, …).

How??
– Reading book chapters and articles,
 Midterm and Final Exam: 50 % of your grade.
– Term project: MiniRel implementation.
 MiniRel project: 50 % of your grade.

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 Topics to Cover

Storage structures: disk, records, pages and files

Operating System issues and buffer management.

Access methods: B+-tree, dynamic hashing,
multidimensional indexes

Query evaluation and optimization

Transaction: concurrency and recovery

Advanced topics: parallel databases, decision
support, k-NN search, string data, XML, etc.

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MiniRel Project

A group of two or three people.

Parts and weights, See the handout for deadlines
– Part I (PF Layer): Provided,
– Part II (HF Layer): 20%
– Part III (AM Layer): 35%
– Part IV (FE Layer): 35%
– Benchmarking: 10%

Read Introduction section of the project handout very
carefully: requirements, policies, etc.

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 MiniRel System Architecture

minirel

dbcreate dbdestroy SQL parser

(libparser.a)
DDL & DML
(libfe.a)

Heap File (libhf.a) Access Method (libam.a)

Paged File (libpf.a)

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MiniRel Layers

PF Layer (libpf.a)
– Disk accesses: create/open/close files, file I/O.
– Page and buffer Management.

HF Layer (libhf.a)
– Heap file management: a sequence of records.
– Random and sequential access to records.
– Primitive predicate evaluations on records.

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 MiniRel Layers (contd)

AM Layer (libam.a)
– Single-attribute indices based on B+-trees.
– Supports query retrievals based on the indices.

FE Layer (libfe.a)
– DDL, DML and Query language functions.
– Database catalog management and utility
programs (dbcreate, dbdestroy, and minirel).
– A simple SQL parser (libparser.a) will be
provided.

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Required Backgounds

Understanding of Relational Database Model

– Relational algebra/calculus, SQL

Understanding of Basic Data Structures
– (e.g.) memory and list management.

Strong Unix and C Programming experience
– Unix system calls, file processing, etc.
– Debugging tools: xxgdb, Parasoft/insure, valgrind
(linux), purify (commercial), etc.

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