CS4400DatabaseSystems

Meeting2:DatamanagementsystemsBrandonMyers

UniversityofIowa

DatabasesandDatabasemanagementsystems(DBMS)• Examplesofdatabases

• ExamplesofDBMSs

Anexample:onlinemusicstreamingservice• Whatdatamustitcontain?

• Whatcapabilitiesareneeded?

Summaryofdatamanagementrequirements1.Abletodescribereal-worldentitiesintermsofstoreddata2.Persistentlystorelargedatasets3.Efficientlyquery&update4.Changestructure(e.g.,addattributes)5.Concurrencycontrol:enablesimultaneousupdates6.Crashrecovery7.Securityandintegrity,provenance

DBMSprovidesthesesothatuserscanfocusonapplicationlogic

Peopleanddatabases

1. Appdeveloper:writesprogramsthatupdateandquerythedataintheDB

2. DBdesigner:modelsthedatabychoosingtablesandtheirattributes

3. DBadmin(“DBA”):operatesthedatabase,diagnosesperformanceproblems

4. Dataanalyst:datamining(inferringusefulinformation),dataintegration(combiningdisparatedata)

5. DBMSimplementer:buildstheDBMS

In4400we’lltrytogiveyousomeexperienceinalloftheseroles,although4and5arehugetopicsthatdemandtheirowncourses

Datastructuresanddatabases

• InCS2230(orequivalent)wasallaboutdatastructures

• Whatisthedifferencebetweenadatabaseandadatastructure?

Howdowerepresentourdataforthepurposesofmakingqueriesandupdates?

Howdowerepresentourdataforthepurposesofmakingqueriesandupdates?

DATAMODEL,theinterfacetoyourdata

Wehaveabunchofstudents,eachwithanameandamajor.WhatmightbeagoodDATAMODELforthisdataset?

Howdowerepresentourdataforthepurposesofmakingqueriesandupdates?

DATAMODEL,theinterfacetoyourdata

• e.g.,Relational• semi-structured,specificallyXML,JSON• graph• key-value

Now,therelationaldatamodel

(seetheboard)

SQLandSQLite

(seethenotesinthe.sql file)

Datawarehousestodatalakes• Conventionally,businesseswouldhave:

1. Businessoperationssupportedby:aDBMSfortransactions(e.g.,sales,supplychainorders)

2. Businessintelligencesupportedby:aDBMSforstoringastructuredandindexedarchiveofrecentandhistoricaldata(thinklibrary)calledadatawarehouse.Employeesanalyzedthedatatoinformdecisions.

• Today,companieslikeMicrosoftrefertodatalakes,replacingthecarefullymaintaineddatabasesofadatawarehousewithenormousquantitiesofrawdata

• Whenthedataneedstobeanalyzed,itistransformedwithparallelprocessingsystems

• in4400we’llexploresemi-structureddata,parallelprocessing,andnon-relationalsystems(“NoSQL”)

From Chaos to Order | by Wiertz Sébastien

Whattodonow

• HW1,whichisdue1/25,11:59pm• startearlybecauseitinvolvesanewtool:sqlite

• LookforthecoursepoliciessurveyintheAnnouncementsofICON,ifyouhaven’ttakenit

Attribution

• SomeslidesinspiredorquotedfromUWCSE344• Peopleanddatabases• Datawarehousestodatalakes• Summaryofdatamanagementrequirements• https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse344/