PA195: NoSQL Databases
Course Organization
Fall 2023
Overview
● Lectures
● Seminars
● Team project
● Completion – colloquium
○ attendance at seminars
○ presentation of results achieved in the team project
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Lectures
● Weekly lectures
○ Slides will be available in IS.
○ (An invited talk by an expert from industry.)
○ Some lectures will be dedicated to project consultations.
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Seminars
● Bi-weekly in a computer room
● You can use your own laptop
○ prerequisites are to install certain SW (Java SDK & Idea, …)
● Five seminars for each group
● Last weeks of seminars will be devoted to the
project presentations
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Group Projects
● There are dozens of “NoSQL” technologies
○ or hundreds, but dozens are widely used
● During the course:
○ Detailed description of 5-7 technologies, namely
HDFS, Hadoop MapReduce, Redis (Riak), Infinispan,
MongoDB, Cassandra, Neo4j
○ Objectives of the projects:
○ let the students explore other NoSQL database systems,
○ actually, touch those systems, and
○ present the findings to the others and contrast with lectures.5
Projects: Assignment Details (1)
● You will form a team of 4 students
○ During the first weeks of the semester
○ A list of enrolled students is available in the study materials
● Each team will pick a NoSQL technology
○ or a Big Data processing technology,
○ not discussed in the course in detail,
○ approved by the teacher (send me an email),
○ so, it will be different from ones picked by the other groups (FCFS).
○ Inspiration: http://db-engines.com/en/ranking/.
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Projects: Assignment Details (2)
● The project consists of:
1. Study the functionality of the system
■ objectives, key features, drawbacks, etc.
■ during the semester, we will see what features a system can have
■ contrast the findings with the info given in lectures.
2. Download, run and play with the system
■ practical work with the system (test on some data, queries, …) and
■ report the experience.
3. Prepare presentation about the system
■ inputs from the above,
■ presentation for 20 minutes,
■ hand in a ZIP archive with presentation slides, sources, experiment
results,...
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Course Completion
● There are two requirements to pass the course:
○ Attendance at the seminars
■ only 1 absence is tolerated,
■ if necessary, student can attend another bi-week seminar with the
same topic.
■ Seminar schedule in an interactive syllabus in IS
○ Projects
■ successful fulfillment of the student’s responsibility within the team
■ presentation of the project
■ during the presentation, the team will say aloud who did what.
○ Participation in min. two presentation dates (sessions).
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