{"id":651,"date":"2009-08-29T15:48:04","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T19:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/?page_id=651"},"modified":"2026-03-19T13:26:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:26:54","slug":"cs689","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/academic-programs\/courses\/cs689\/","title":{"rendered":"Designing and Implementing a Data Warehouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<style> p {margin-bottom:0px;} .course-feed .cf-course h4 {display: none; white-space: wrap;} .button{width:125px;}<\/style>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"course-feed\"><div class=\"cf-course\">\n\t<h4>Designing and Implementing a Data Warehouse<\/h4>\n\t<p class=\"meta\">MET CS 689 (4 credits)<\/p>\n\t\n\t<p>Prerequisites: CS 579 or CS 669 or consent of the instructor - This course surveys state-of-the art technologies in DW and Big Data. It describes logical, physical and semantic foundation of modern DW infrastructure. Students will create a cube using OLAP and implement decision support benchmarks on Hadoop\/Spark vs Vertica database. Upon successful completion, students will be familiar with tradeoffs in DW design and architecture.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<p class=\"\"><em>2026SPRGMETCS689O2, Mar 10th to Apr 27th 2026<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-table\">\n<table>\n\t<tr>\n\t\t<th>Days<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Start<\/th>\n\t\t<th>End<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Type<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Bldg<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Room<\/th>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t<tr>\n\t<td>ARR<\/td>\n\t<td>12:00 AM<\/td>\n\t<td>12:00 AM<\/td>\n\t<td><\/td>\n\t<td><\/td>\n\t<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><strong>Format &amp; Syllabus:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"btn-group\">\n<div class=\"dropdown\">\n<p><button class=\"button\">On Campus<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"dropdown-content\"><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2024\/08\/689-CS-Fall-2024-Syllabus.pdf\"><\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2025\/08\/CS689-Fall-2025-Syllabus.pdf\">689 A1 Fall25<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2024\/08\/689-CS-Fall-2024-Syllabus.pdf\">CS689 FALL24<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2024\/03\/CS689-On-Campus-Fall-2023.pdf\">CS689 FALL23<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2020\/09\/Syllabus-CS-689-Fall-2020.docx\">CS689 FALL20<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2019\/12\/MET-CS689-Designing-and-Implementing-a-Data-Warehouse-Fall-2019.pdf\">CS689 FALL19<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2018\/11\/CS689_B1_Fall_2018.pdf\">CS689 FALL18<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2018\/05\/CS689_B1_Fall-2017.pdf\">CS689 FALL17<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2015\/08\/CS689_A1_Fall-20151.pdf\">CS689 FALL15<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dropdown\">\n<p><button class=\"button\">Online<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"dropdown-content\"><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2024\/03\/CS689-On-Line-Spring-2024.pdf\"><\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2026\/03\/MET-CS-689-Syllabus-Spring-O2-2026.pdf\">689 O2 SPRG26<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2024\/03\/CS689-On-Line-Spring-2024.pdf\">CS689 SPRG24<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2022\/08\/MET_CS689-O2_Spring-2022_Des-Data-Warehs.pdf\">CS689 SPRG22<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2021\/03\/CS689-O2.pdf\">CS689 SPRG21<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2018\/06\/CS689_O1_SPRG-2-2018.pdf\">CS689 SPRG18<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dropdown\"><button class=\"button\" disabled=\"disabled\">Blended<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clearfloat\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Format &amp; Syllabus: On Campus 689 A1 Fall25CS689 FALL24CS689 FALL23CS689 FALL20CS689 FALL19CS689 FALL18CS689 FALL17CS689 FALL15 Online 689 O2 SPRG26CS689 SPRG24CS689 SPRG22CS689 SPRG21CS689 SPRG18 Blended &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1719,"featured_media":0,"parent":7301,"menu_order":62,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1719"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31526,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/651\/revisions\/31526"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}