6.5830/6.5831 lectures are held from 2:30 – 4:00 pm on Mondays and Wednesdays in 32-155. We put down a tentative lecturer for each lecture.
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| Sep 4 Labor Day |
Sep 5 Registration Day |
Sep 6 First Day of Classes Lec 1: Introduction to Databases / Relational Model / SQL Part 1 Assigned: Lab 0 |
Sep 7 |
Sep 8 |
| Sep 11 Lec 2: SQL Part 2 Reading Assignment Assigned: PS 1 |
Sep 12 |
Sep 13 Lec 3: Schema Design Reading Assignment Assigned: Lab 1 Due: Lab 0 |
Sep 14 |
Sep 15 |
| Sep 18 Lec 4: Intro to Database Internals Reading Assignment |
Sep 19 |
Sep 20 Lec 5: Database Operators and Query Processing Reading Assignment Due: PS 1 |
Sep 21 |
Sep 22 |
| Sep 25 Lec 6: Indexing and Access Methods Reading Assignment Assigned: Lab 2 |
Sep 26 |
Sep 27 Lec 7: Join Algorithms Reading Assignment Due: Lab 1 Due: Project teams (6.5830 only) Assigned: PS 2 |
Sep 28 |
Sep 29 |
| Oct 2 Lec 8: Database Layout for Analytic Databases Reading Assignment |
Oct 3 |
Oct 4 Lec 9: Query Optimization Reading Assignment Due: Lab 2 Assigned: Lab 3 |
Oct 5 |
Oct 6 ADD DATE |
| Oct 9 Indigenous Peoples' Day |
Oct 10 Student Holiday |
Oct 11 Quiz 1 |
Oct 12 |
Oct 13 |
| Oct 16 Lec 10: Transactions And Locking Reading Assignment Due: Project proposals (only if doing final project) |
Oct 17 |
Oct 18 Lec 11: Optimistic Concurrency Control and Snapshot Isolation Reading Assignment | Oct 19 |
Oct 20 |
| Oct 23 Lec 12: Recovery Reading Assignment Due: PS 2 |
Oct 24 |
Oct 25 Lec 13: Recovery (cont.) Reading Assignment Due: Lab 3 Other: Project Meetings |
Oct 26 |
Oct 27 |
| Oct 30 Lec 14: Advanced Cardinality Estimation Assigned: PS 3 Other: Project Meetings |
Oct 31 |
Nov 1 Lec 15: Distributed Databases Reading Assignment |
Nov 2 |
Nov 3 |
| Nov 6 Lec 16: Distributed Transactions Reading Assignment Assigned: Lab 4 |
Nov 7 |
Nov 8 Lec 17: Eventual Consistency Reading Assignment |
Nov 9 |
Nov 10 Veterans Day |
| Nov 13 Lec 18: High Performance Transactions Reading Assignment Final projects meetings & mid-term reports this week (6.5830 only) Other: Project Meetings |
Nov 14 |
Nov 15 Lec 19: Cluster Computing Part 1 (MapReduce / Hadoop) Reading Assignment Due: Lab 4 Plan Other: Project Meetings |
Nov 16 |
Nov 17 |
| Nov 20 Lec 20: Cluster Computing Part 2 (Spark) Reading Assignment |
Nov 21 |
Nov 22 No Lecture DROP DATE |
Nov 23 Thanksgiving |
Nov 24 Institute Holiday |
| Nov 27 Lec 21: Project Meetings / Quiz Review Other: Lab 4 Plan Feedback |
Nov 28 |
Nov 29 Quiz 2 |
Nov 30 |
Dec 1 |
| Dec 4 Lec 22: Learned Data Systems Reading Assignment Due: PS 3 |
Dec 5 |
Dec 6 Lec 23: Additional Topics |
Dec 7 |
Dec 8 |
| Dec 11 Lec 24: Research Topics |
Dec 12 |
Dec 13 Last Day of Classes Final project presentations. Due: Lab 4 (6.5831 only) Due: Project Report and Presentations (6.5830 only) |
Dec 14 |
Dec 15 |
Last change: September 11 2023.
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