CS 638 - Principles of Data Management and Use

A user-oriented approach to data management focusing on database principles, how to design a database, how to access data in the database and some recent technology for big data processing and the NoSQL movement. Relational database technology, relational algebra, SQL, database views, transactions, data modeling methodology, entity-relationship models. Introduction to several current topics in database research, such as warehousing, data mining, big data processing, NoSQL systems. Master of Health Informatics and Analytics students only.