- International Fees
International fees are typically 3.12 times the domestic tuition. Exact cost will be calculated upon completion of registration.
Course Overview
This course provides hands-on training of deploying, configuring and optimizing Database-As-A-Service (DBaaS) for cloud computing. Students will implement and experiment with fault-tolerant and scalable DBaaS architectures and test their efficacy in meeting the performance, scalability and availability needs of diverse set of cloud applications. Opportunities for power savings will be explored.
Prerequisite(s)
- 60% in COMP 7071
Credits
3.0
- Not offered this term
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Simulate workloads of a variety of data applications e.g. IoT, multimedia, document management and other information systems.
- Utilize Hypervisor solutions to manage multiple instances of database systems on Virtual Machines on both Windows and Linux platforms for scalability and fault-tolerance purposes.
- Utilize container orchestration tools to manage multiple instances of database systems on containers for scalability and fault tolerance purposes
- Comparatively evaluate Virtual Machine vs container oriented deployment strategies.
- Evaluate suitability of commercial and open-source, small and large-foot print, relational and non-relational databases in handling the data ingestion and query work loads associated with variety of applications employing DBaaS.
- Evaluate use of In-Memory-Databases and hardware accelerators such as GPUs in handling the query workloads of applications employing DBaaS.
- Evaluate load balancing and caching strategies to meet scalability requirements of applications.
- Measure the impact of load balancing and caching strategies on power saving.
- Utilize open-source real-time database systems to configure real-time DBaaS offering.
Effective as of Winter 2025
Related Programs
Data Center Design (COMP 7171) is offered as a part of the following programs:
- Indicates programs accepting international students.
- Indicates programs with a co-op option.
School of Computing and Academic Studies
- Applied Computer Science (Database Option)
Bachelor of Science Full-time/Part-time
- Applied Computer Science (Human Computer Interface Option)
Bachelor of Science Part-time
- Applied Computer Science (Wireless and Mobile Applications Development Option)
Bachelor of Science Part-time
Programs and courses are subject to change without notice.