Course in In-Memory Data Management

Prof. Dr. h.c. Hasso Plattner is the chair of the "Enterprise Platform and Integration Concepts" research group at HPI, which focuses mainly on In-Memory Data Management for Enterprise Applications. He is author and co-author of over 50 scientific publications and has served conferences such as ACM SIGMOD as a keynote speaker. He is author of "In-Memory Data Management" and currently serves as a visiting professor at the Stanford University Institute of Design. Hasso Plattner is also a co-founder of SAP AG, where he served as CEO until 2003 and has since been chairman of the supervisory board. SAP AG today is the leading provider of enterprise software solutions. In his role as chief software advisor, he concentrates on defining the mid- and long-term technology strategy and direction of SAP.

• ​Introduction.- The Future of Enterprise Computing: New Requirements for Enterprise Computing.- Enterprise Application Characteristics.- Changes in Hardware.- A Blueprint of SanssouciDB.- Foundations of Database Storage Techniques: Dictionary Encoding.- Compression.- Data Layout in Main Memory.- Partitioning.- In-Memory Database Operators: Delete.-  Insert.- Update.- Tuple Reconstruction.- Scan Performance.- Select.- Materialization Strategies.- Parallel Data Processing.- Indices.- Join.- Aggregate Functions.- Parallel Select.- Workload Management and Scheduling.- Parallel Join.- Parallel Aggregation.- Advanced Database Storage Techniques: Differential Buffer.- Insert- Only.- The Merge Process.- Logging.- Recovery.- On-the-fly Database Reorganization.- Foundations for a New Enterprise Application Development Era: Implications on Application Development.- Database Views.- Handling Business Objects.- Bypass Solution.- Self Test Solution.

From the reviews: "I would recommend it primarily to database practitioners and database implementers seeking to better understand the physical layer of in-memory database systems. ... The material will be of interest to database developers interested in physical-layer implementation. It may also be of some interest to application developers working with in-memory databases, particularly SanssouciDB." (S. Thomas, Computing Reviews, September, 2013)