Unit I
PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED DATABASES : Database System Architectures: Centralized and Client-Server Architectures - Server System Architectures - Parallel Systems - Distributed Systems - Parallel Databases: I/O Parallelism - Inter and Intra Query Parallelism - Inter and Intra operation Parallelism - Distributed Database Concepts - Distributed Data Storage - Distributed Transactions - Commit Protocols - Concurrency Control - Distributed Query Processing - Three Tier Client Server Architecture- Case Studies.
Unit II
OBJECT AND OBJECT RELATIONAL DATABASES : Concepts for Object Databases: Object Identity - Object structure - Type Constructors - Encapsulation of Operations - Methods - Persistence - Type and Class Hierarchies - Inheritance - Complex Objects - Object Database Standards, Languages and Design: ODMG Model - ODL - OQL - Object Relational and Extended - Relational Systems : Object Relational feature sin SQL/Oracle - Case Studies.
Unit III
XML DATABASES : XML Databases: XML Data Model - DTD - XML Schema - XML Querying - Web Databases - JDBC - Information Retrieval - Data Warehousing - Data Mining.
Unit IV
MOBILE DATABASES : Mobile Databases: Location and Handoff Management - Effect of Mobility on Data Management - Location Dependent Data Distribution - Mobile Transaction Models - Concurrency Control - Transaction Commit Protocols- Mobile Database Recovery Schemes.
Unit V:
Web, Temporal And Spatial Data Mining
MULTIMEDIA DATABASES : Multidimensional Data Structures - Image Databases - Text/Document Databases- Video Databases - Audio Databases - Multimedia Database Design.
REFERENCES:
1. R. Elmasri, S.B. Navathe, "Fundamentals of Database Systems", Fifth Edition, Pearson Education/Addison Wesley, 2007.
2. Thomas Cannolly and Carolyn Begg, " Database Systems, A Practical Approach to Design, Implementation and Management", Third Edition, Pearson Education, 2007.
3. Henry F Korth, Abraham Silberschatz, S. Sudharshan, "Database System Concepts", Fifth Edition, McGraw Hill, 2006.
4. C.J.Date, A.Kannan and S.Swamynathan,"An Introduction to Database Systems", Eighth Edition, Pearson Education, 2006.
5. V.S.Subramanian, "Principles of Multimedia Database Systems", Harcourt India Pvt Ltd., 2001.
6. Vijay Kumar, " Mobile Database Systems", John Wiley & Sons, 2006
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