This note is designed to introduce 
graduate students to the foundations of database systems, focusing on basics 
such as the relational algebra and data model, query optimization, query 
processing, and transactions. Topics covered includes: The relational model, 
Schema design, database internals, Database operators and query processing, 
Indexing and access methods, Buffer pool design and memory management, Join 
algorithms, Query optimization, Selinger optimizer, Transactions and locking, 
Optimistic concurrency control, Distributed transactions, Parallel databases, 
Scientific databases, NOSQL , ORM, DryadLINQ, Streaming databases, database as a 
service.
Author(s): Prof. Samuel Madden, Prof. Robert Morris, 
Prof. Michael Stonebraker, Dr. Carlo Curino
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