The course covers the fundamental concepts of management and design of database systems.
Topics include data models (relational); query languages (SQL); implementation techniques of database management systems (index structures and query processing); and noSQL databases.
The learning objectives are: a) To understand and use the main technologies for database management; b) To design a relational database (and not), from a conceptual, logical and physical perspective; c) To use SQL language for performing efficient queries in cases of large datasets; and d) To create and query large scale datasets.