CSC 424 Advanced Database Management Systems
4 hours; 4 credits. Extend the knowledge of database systems to cover non-traditional databases. Topics covered may include: Parallel system for Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), column stores for Online Analytical Processing (OLAP), transaction management, concurrent and distributed databases (cloud databases), object-oriented and multimedia databases, as well as NoSQL based databases. Use of Hadoop and Map Reduce for cloud databases. Prerequisite: CSC 315 with a grade of C or higher.