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CS 265 Big Data Systems
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CS 265 Big Data Systems

Harvard University

1 recommender · 1 thread · recommended in 1 year, 2017 · score 0.7

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A graduate course from Harvard on the design and implementation of large-scale data systems, covering distributed storage, processing frameworks, and the tradeoffs involved in big data infrastructure.

Commenters point to it as a graduate-level alternative to introductory database material, listed alongside other grad database courses.

Databases & Data Engineeringadvanced#big data#distributed systems#data systems#harvard

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  1. Recommendsmakmanalp2017in “Readings in Database Systems, 5th Edition (2015)”

    This book is more about different types of tradeoffs you can make in terms of your system design. I'd recommend looking at grad databases courses instead, e.g:

    - http://db.cs.cmu.edu/courses/ - http://daslab.seas.harvard.edu/classes/cs165/ - http://daslab.seas.harvard.edu/classes/cs265/

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