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CMU Intro to Database Systems (15-445/645 - Fall 2025)

by CMU Database Group · 25 videos

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1 #01 - Relational Model & Algebra (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:14:50 2025-08-26
2 #02 - Modern SQL ✸ dbt Database Talk (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:17:42 2025-08-28
3 #03 - Database Storage: Files, Pages, Tuples (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:17:02 2025-09-04
4 #04 - Memory Management & Buffer Pools (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:20:11 2025-09-09
5 #05 - Log-Structured Database Storage ✸ SingleStore Database Talk (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:19:19 2025-09-11
6 #06 - Column-Store Databases (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:21:20 2025-09-16
7 #07 - Database Hash Tables ✸ YugabyteDB Database Talk (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:20:31 2025-09-19
8 #08 - B+Trees: The Best Data Structure in the World (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:24:43 2025-09-23
9 #09 - Vector Indexes + Inverted Indexes + Skip Lists + Bloom Filters (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:23:29 2025-09-25
10 #10 - Latching in Data Structures (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:22:19 2025-09-30
11 #11 - Sorting & Aggregation Algorithms ✸ MotherDuck Database Talk (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:20:09 2025-10-02
12 #12 - Hash Joins, Sort-Merge Joins, Nested Loop Join Algorithms (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:19:13 2025-10-07
13 #13 - Query Execution Part 1 (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:20:18 2025-10-21
14 #14 - Parallel Query Engine Architectures ✸ SpiralDB Database Talk (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:19:13 2025-10-23
15 #15 - Database Query Optimizers Part 1 (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:19:40 2025-10-28
16 #16 - Query Optimization Part 2 (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:21:17 2025-10-30
17 #17 - Concurrency Control Theory (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:20:45 2025-11-04
18 #18 - Transactions with Two-Phase Locking ✸ Firebolt Database Talk (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:23:05 2025-11-07
19 #19 - Timestamp Ordering Concurrency Control (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:24:42 2025-11-11
20 #20 - MVCC: Multi-Version Concurrency Control (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:23:20 2025-11-13
21 #21 - Write-Ahead Logging + Shadow Paging (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:21:50 2025-11-18
22 #22 - Database Crash Recovery ✸ ClickHouse Database Talk (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:17:54 2025-11-20
23 #23 - Distributed Databases Pt. 1 (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:25:08 2025-11-25
24 #24 - Distributed Databases Pt. 2 (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:19:06 2025-12-02
25 #25 - Databricks + Yellowbrick + ClickHouse ✸ RelationalAI DB Talk (CMU Intro to Database Systems) 1:25:44 2025-12-04
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