NoSQL Databases 2014 – Group Projects

Students will work in groups on a project during the second half of the semester. This is a requirement for finishing the course successfully.

Idea of the Project

• There are hundreds of “NoSQL” technologies and dozens of them are widely used.
• During the course, we will describe in detail about 6 technologies.
• The students will explore other NoSQL database systems, study their functionality, actually work with them, and present the findings to the others in the end of the semester.

Assignment

• Students should form groups of two-three people.
• Each group will pick any NoSQL technology that is not discussed in the course in detail (approved by the teacher, different than other groups picked).
  • write me an email with names within the group and with the preferred technology (or technologies)
• The work will cover these three areas:
  • Study the functionality of the system (objectives, key features, drawbacks, etc.)
  • Download, run and play with the system (practical work with the system)
  • Prepare a presentation containing findings about the system (15 minutes including discussion)

Groups and Topics

Suggested topics (not exhaustive list): Amazon (AWS) Elastic Map Reduce, Elastic Search, MemCached, Oracle NoSQL Database, Oracle Berkley DB, CouchDB, HBase, OrientDB, Apache Giraph. Other systems: http://db-engines.com/en/ranking/