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CMU Intro to Database Systems (15-445/645 - Fall 2024)

by CMU Database Group · 26 videos

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1 #00 - Course Overview & Logistics (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 21:20 2024-08-26
2 #01 - Relational Model & Algebra (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:23:38 2024-08-27
3 #02 - Modern SQL (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:18:45 2024-08-29
4 #03 - Database Storage: Files & Pages ✸ Neon Database Talk (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:22:28 2024-09-05
5 #04 - Database Storage: Log-Structured Merge Trees & Tuples (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:22:41 2024-09-09
6 #05 - Row vs. Column Storage + Compression ✸ StarTree Database Talk (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:28:00 2024-09-11
7 #06 - Memory & Disk I/O Management (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:23:57 2024-09-17
8 #07 - Hash Tables ✸ RelationalAI Database Talk (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:23:44 2024-09-18
9 #08 - Tree Indexes: B+Trees (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:22:15 2024-09-23
10 #09 - Vector Indexes, Inverted Indexes, Filters, Tries ✸ TiDB Talk (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:21:11 2024-09-26
11 #10 - Index Concurrency Control (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:16:42 2024-09-30
12 #11 - Sorting & Aggregation Algorithms ✸ dbt Database Talk (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:17:57 2024-10-03
13 #12 - Join Algorithms: Hash, Sort-Merge, Nested Loop Joins (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:14:23 2024-10-08
14 #13 - Query Execution Part 1 (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:23:19 2024-10-21
15 #14 - Query Execution Part 2 ✸ ClickHouse Database Talk (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:02:50 2024-10-26
16 #15 - Query Planning & Optimization (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:21:18 2024-10-29
17 #16 - Concurrency Control Theory ✸ Firebolt Database Talk (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:27:09 2024-10-31
18 #17 - Two-Phase Locking Concurrency Control (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:05:22 2024-11-05
19 #18 - Optimistic Concurrency Control ✸ Weaviate Database Talk (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:20:53 2024-11-07
20 #19 - Multi-Version Concurrency Control (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:27:07 2024-11-12
21 #20 - Database Logging ✸ Confluent Database Talk (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:19:21 2024-11-14
22 #21 - Database Recovery with ARIES (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:12:55 2024-11-19
23 #22 - Distributed Database Architectures ✸ DataStax Database Talk (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:23:02 2024-11-21
24 #23 - Distributed Transactional Databases (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:24:54 2024-11-26
25 #24 - Distributed Analytical Databases (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:22:55 2024-12-03
26 #25 - BigQuery + Snowflake + Redshift + Databricks + DuckDB (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:25:57 2024-12-05
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