{"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":"2026-01-27T16:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T21:48:09","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> Graduate Prerequisites: (METCS579 OR METCS669) or consent of the instructor - This course covers 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. Course covers various 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. Students learn about unstructured \"big data\" architectures and databases, and gain hands-on experience with Spark and MongoDB. Students complete a term project exploring an advanced database technology of their choice. Prereq: MET CS 579 or MET CS 669; or instructor's consent.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<p class=\"\"><em>2026SPRGMETCS779A1, Jan 20th to Apr 30th 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>222<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div><p class=\"\"><em>2026SPRGMETCS779O1, Jan 13th to Mar 2nd 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\/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\">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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