{"id":701,"date":"2009-08-29T16:38:11","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T20:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/?page_id=701"},"modified":"2026-06-26T13:07:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T17:07:27","slug":"cs779","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/academic-programs\/courses\/cs779\/","title":{"rendered":"Advanced Database Management"},"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>Advanced Database Management<\/h4>\n\t<p class=\"meta\">MET CS 779 (4 credits)<\/p>\n\t\n\t<p>Prerequisites: METCS579 or METCS669 or consent of the instructor - Investigate advanced aspects of database management including normalization and denormalization, query optimization, distributed databases, data warehousing, and big data. There is extensive coverage and hands on work with SQL, and database instance tuning. Modern database architectures, including relational, key value, object relational, and document store models, as well as various approaches to scale out, integrate, and implement database systems through replication and cloud-based instances, are covered. You will learn about unstructured \"big data\" architectures and databases, gain hands-on experience with Spark and MongoDB, and complete a term project exploring an advanced database technology of your choice.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<p class=\"\"><em>2026FALLMETCS779A1, Sep 2nd to Dec 10th 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>R<\/td>\n\t<td>06:00 PM<\/td>\n\t<td>08:45 PM<\/td>\n\t<td><\/td>\n\t<td>CAS<\/td>\n\t<td>324<\/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\/2025\/01\/Syllabus-CS779-Spring-2025-OC.pdf\"><\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2025\/08\/CS779-Fall-2025-Syllabus.pdf\"><\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2026\/01\/779A1.pdf\">779 A1 SPRG26<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2025\/08\/CS779-Fall-2025-Syllabus.pdf\">779 A1 Fall25<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2025\/01\/Syllabus-CS779-Spring-2025-OC.pdf\">CS779 SPRG25<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2024\/08\/779-CS-Fall-2024-Syllabus.pdf\">CS779 FALL24<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2024\/03\/CS779-On-Campus-Spring-2024.pdf\">CS779 SPRG24<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2022\/08\/MET_CS779-A1_Spring-2022_Adv-D-B-Mgmt.pdf\">CS779 SPRG22<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2021\/09\/Syllabus-CS779-Fall-2021.pdf\">CS779 FALL21<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2020\/09\/Syllabus-CS779-Fall-2020.pdf\">CS779 FALL20<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2019\/12\/METCS779_Fall-2019.pdf\">CS779 FALL19<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2019\/12\/CS779_SPRG-19.pdf\">CS779 SPRG19<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2018\/05\/CS779_C1_E1_Fall-2017.pdf\">CS779 FALL17<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2018\/05\/CS779-B1_-Spring-2017.pdf\">CS779 SPRG17<\/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\/2025\/05\/CS779-SUM25.pdf\"><\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2026\/01\/779O1.pdf\"><\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2026\/06\/MET-CS-779-Syllabus-Sum22026O2.pdf\">CS779 SUM26<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2026\/01\/779O1.pdf\">779 O1 SPRG26<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2025\/05\/CS779-SUM25.pdf\">CS779 SUM25<\/a> <a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2025\/01\/Syllabus-CS779-Spring-2025-1-OL.pdf\">CS779 SPRG25<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2022\/08\/MET_CS779-O2_Summer-2022_Adv-D-B-Mgmt.pdf\"><\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2024\/03\/CS779-On-Line-Spring-2024.pdf\">CS779 SPRG24<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2022\/08\/MET_CS779-O2_Summer-2022_Adv-D-B-Mgmt.pdf\">CS779 SUM22<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2022\/08\/MET_CS779-O1_Spring-2022_Adv-D-B-Mgmt.pdf\">CS779 SPRG22<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2020\/02\/CS779-Advance-Database-Managemnt-Spring-2020.pdf\">CS779 SPRG20<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2019\/12\/MET-CS779-A1-Advanced-Database-Management.pdf\">CS779 FALL19<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2018\/06\/CS779_O1_SPRG-1-2018.pdf\">CS779 SPRG18<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2018\/06\/CS779_O2_SUMM-2-2018.pdf\">CS779 SUM18<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dropdown\">\n<p><button class=\"button\">Blended<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"dropdown-content\"><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2018\/05\/CS779_C1_E1_Fall-2017.pdf\">CS779 FALL17<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clearfloat\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Format &amp; 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