The last years have seen exciting developments in the areas of Databases. When you book hotels and flights, use ATM machines, buy something in a shop, pick some packet that arrived by mail, go to the bank, search for an apartment, register a new apartment, or use the web, computerized data management is always present. This is because most human activities are systematically recorded and make use of data based information systems to help search, organize and manage. Your latest medical imaging records are also stored or indexed in a database. This is a textbook about databases and developing...

The amount of data recorded, processed and managed has augmented at huge rates as the web age progressed, and as organizations became increasingly sophisticated and shifted from slow reaction times to acting quickly and proactively. This book describes data warehouse solutions to handle scalability and realtime needs of modern contexts. The mechanisms that should be used for scalability are studied, including foundations and most recent approaches that are also covered in the book. The topics of bigdata and the use of bigdata technologies in the context is also introduced. The book can be...

The last years have seen exciting developments in the areas of Databases. When you book some travel, use ATM machines, buy something, pick some packet that arrived by mail, go to the bank, search for an apartment or use the web, data management is always present in the backstage. This is a textbook on databases and development of data applications. It teaches the foundations of the relational and entity-relationship models, SQL and database design. It also teaches how to design and develop applications using some programming language. But, most importantly, all concepts are extensively...