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COMP 356E Database Systems Technology
Arts & Sciences Program
Seville, Spain
Dates: 9/2/25 - 12/17/25
COMP 356E Database Systems Technology
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Pablo de Olavide University
Location: Seville, Spain
Primary Subject Area: Computer Sciences
Instruction in: English
Course Code: COMP 356E
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 300
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
Required Supplies: This course will require students to bring their laptop for the classes that require running databases examples. (Databases will not be running on tablets or smartphones).
DESCRIPTION
This course is an introduction to database systems. We will explain how to query database systems via languages such as SQL. Then, we will see how database systems work internally, how they store and index data, how they process and optimize queries, and how they process transactions while providing guarantees such as isolation, atomicity, and durability (ACID guarantees). Different database systems such a distributed DBMS, In-Memory databases and NoSQL databases will also be introduced.