Includes index.

Contents: Database and database users -- Database system concepts and architecture -- Data modeling using the entity-relationship (ER) model --The enhanced entity-relationship (EER) model -- The relational data model and rational database constraints -- Basic SQL -- More SQL -- The relational algebra and relational calculus -- Relational database design by ER and EER-to- relational mapping -- Introduction to SQL programming techniques - Web database programming using PHP -- Object and object-relational databases -- XML: Extensible markup language -- Basics of functional dependencies and normalization for relational databases -- Relational database design algorithms and further dependencies -- File structures, hashing, indexing, and physical database design -- Indexing structures for files and physical database design -- Strategies for query processing -- Query optimization -- Introduction to transaction processing, concepts and theory -- Concurrency control techniques -- Database recovery techniques -- Distributed database concepts --NOSQL databases and big data storage systems -- Big data technologies bases on MapReduce and Hadoop -- Enhanced data models -- introduction t information retrieval and web search -- Data mining concepts -- Overview of data warehousing and OLAP -- Database security -- Appendix: Alternative diagrammatic notations for ER models -- Parameters of disks -- Overview of the QBE language -- Overview of the hierarchical data model -- Overview of the network data model -- --