PA195: NoSQL Databases
Course Organization
Fall 2024
Overview
● Lectures
● Home practice
● Seminars for group projects
● Completion – colloquium
○ Passing all group project assignments
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Lectures
● Weekly lectures
○ Slides will be available in IS.
○ (An invited talk by an expert from industry/academia.)
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Seminars
● Bi-weekly in a computer room
● Seminar schedule is in its interactive syllabus in IS.
● You can use your own laptop
○ prerequisites are to install certain SW (Java SDK & Idea, …)
○ But no support is provided by the seminar tutor!
● Solving group assignments
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Group Assignments
● During the course:
○ Detailed description of 5-7 technologies, namely
HDFS, Hadoop MapReduce, Redis (Riak), Infinispan,
MongoDB, Cassandra, Neo4j
○ http://db-engines.com/en/ranking/
○ Objectives of the 2-3 group assignments:
○ Apply a NoSQL database to the given problem,
○ actually, use those systems to load data and perform some
tasks, and
○ present the findings to the seminar tutor.
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Assignment Details
● You will form a team of 4 students
○ It may vary from seminar to seminar.
● Analyze the given problem
● Solve it with a NoSQL technology
○ or a Big Data processing technology.
● Show the solution
○ to be approved by the seminar tutor.
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Course Completion
● All group assignments must be approved to pass
the course.
● We expect 2-3 assignments.
● If you do not get approval, you need to fix it in the next
seminar (or a home) to show it for approval again.
● If it is unavoidable, you can attend another bi-week seminar.
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