Data Models and Query Languages

Catalog description

The course focuses on the issues of data models and query languages that are relevant for building present-day database applications, covering both well-established and cutting-edge frameworks. It adopts the user’s point of view, discussing primarily conceptual and foundational topics. Specific topics include: Entity-Relationship and relational database design, integrity constraints, graph and semi-structured data models, relational, graph and semi-structured query languages, DATALOG, recursion, path expressions, selected current topics. Several projects are given. The projects involve using current database technologies for building applications. This course is dual-listed with CSE 560.