Schedule

Lecture: MW 4:00-5:20pm (Aug 25 – Dec 8) Location: TBD

Office hour: Wednesday 2:30-4pm NCS 351

The schedule is tentative and subject to change.

Date	Topic
	Session I: Welcome and Architecture
Aug 25	Overview How to Read a Paper
Aug 27	Amazon Aurora [Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High
Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases](readings/aurora.pdf)
Sep 01	No class (Labor Day)
Sep 03	TiDB TiDB: A Raft-based HTAP Database
	Session II: Replication
Sep 08	Primary-Backup Replication The Dangers of Replication and a Solution
Sep 10	Raft Raft
Sep 15	Raft (cont’d) Raft
Sep 17	TBD
Sep 22	MongoDB Replication Fault-Tolerant Replication with Pull-Based Consensus in MongoDB
	Session II: Index and Storage
Sep 24	Masstree Cache Craftiness for Fast Multicore Key-Value Storage
Sep 29	PebblesDB Building Key-Value Stores using Fragmented Log-Structured Merge Trees
Oct 01	TBD
Oct 06	No class (Fall break)
Oct 08	TBD
	Session III: Transaction
Oct 13	Serializability Concurrency control
Oct 15	2PL and 2PC Spanner
Oct 20	Speculation and cascade rollback Mako: Speculative Distributed Transactions with Geo-Replication
	Session IV: Weaker Isolation and Consistency
Oct 22	OCC and Snapshot Isolation Percolator
Oct 27	More Isolation Levels Critique
	Session V: Cloud, SQL, and Data Platform
Oct 29	MapReduce Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters
Nov 03	Spark Resilient Distributed Datasets: A Fault-Tolerant Abstraction for In-Memory Cluster Computing
Nov 05	The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse
Nov 10	Velox: Meta’s Unified Execution Engine
Nov 12	Spanner: Becoming a SQL System
Nov 17	TBD
Nov 19	TBD
Nov 24	TBD
Nov 26	No class (Thanksgiving break)
Dec 01	Student Project Presentations
Dec 03	Student Project Presentations
Dec 08	Student Project Presentations

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