Big Data Systems

2024-2025, Semester A

School of Computer Science
Tel Aviv University

Course Information

Course Staff

Course Goal

The course covers the architecture and design of modern big data systems from a data modeling and data management perspectives. Topics includes centralized vs distributed data systems, NoSQL and in particular wide-column database systems and Cassandra, storage strategies, denormalization modeling, stream processing, data warehouse and more.
The goal of the course is to provide the theoretical as well as the practical hands on knowledge required for designing and developing internet scale based data applications.

Course Format

The class meets once a week for a 3 hours lecture.
There will be 2-3 homework assignments (in pairs, some of which will involve programming) - 45% of the final grade.
Final exam - 55% of the final grade.

Course Requirements

  • Data structures (0368-2158) or Data structures and Algorithms (0512-2510)

Course Schedule and Slides

* tentative due to Iron Swords war

# Date Topics Material Notes
1 05.11.2024 Introduction Hello, World!
Introduction to Big Data
Introduction to Relational DB 		                                                                                                   
2 12.11.2024 Relational DB SQL
Relational Data Integrity
MySQL CLI
3 19.11.2024 Relational data modeling Relational modeling
MySQL workbench 		HW#1 distributed
4 26.11.2024 Distributed DB, CAP theorem, NoSQL
5 03.12.2024 Dynamo HW#1 due
6 10.12.2024 Bigtable
7 17.12.2024 Cassandra - Intro
8 24.12.2024 Cassandra - Advanced
9 31.12.2024 Cassandra - Hands on HW#2 distributed
10 07.01.2025 Data modeling in NoSQL
11 14.01.2025 Data modeling in NoSQL - Advanced HW#2 due
HW#3 distributed
12 21.01.2025 Data warehouse (BigQuery)
13 28.01.2025 TBD (Spanner / Kafka / ...) HW#3 due
- 12.02.2025 Final Test

Reference Papers, Classes and Others