Database Engineering Courses and Certifications

Fundamentals of Database Engineering

12238 ratings at Udemy

Learn ACID, Indexing, Partitioning, Sharding, Concurrency control, Replication, DB Engines, Best Practices and More!

• Udemy
• 1 day 7 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Birla Institute Of Technology And Science–Pilani (BITS–Pilani)

Java Database Engineering: Spring Boot MVC & SQL Mastery

Build a library management system: design normalized databases, write SQL with indexing and window functions, and implement Spring Boot MVC layers with JPA/Hibernate, JSP, and Tomcat.

• Coursera
• 10 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Hussein Nasser

Database Engineering

Explore database performance and reliability through indexing, query planning, transactions, concurrency control, replication, partitioning, sharding, and storage design.

• YouTube
• 1 day 8 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Meta Career Certificate

Meta Database Engineer

7821 ratings at Coursera

Learn to design, query and manage MySQL databases, model data, build database-driven applications with Python and Django, use version control, and prepare for coding interviews.

• Coursera
• 24 weeks, 6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 9 courses

Meta

Database Engineer Capstone

67 ratings at Coursera

Build a restaurant database solution end to end: model an ER diagram in MySQL Workbench, write stored procedures and prepared statements, visualize sales in Tableau, and code a Python client.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Hussein Nasser

On Graph Databases - The Backend Engineering Show

Understand how database I/O, indexes, and storage engines shape graph database design and traversal for relationship-heavy use cases.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Hussein Nasser

Redo, Undo and WAL Logs - The Backend Engineering Show

Explore how WAL, redo logs, undo logs, checkpointing, and fsync support database durability and crash recovery.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The ASF

BanyanDB's New Column-Based Storage Engine

Discover how BanyanDB's innovative column-based storage engine enhances cloud-native data management and improves system performance for modern applications.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

AI-Powered Software and System Design

194 ratings at Coursera

Use LLMs to design software architectures from natural language requirements, build a database for an e-commerce platform, integrate APIs like DALL-E, and refactor with Gang of Four patterns.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Meta

Advanced MySQL Topics

260 ratings at Coursera

Develop user-defined functions, stored procedures, triggers and events in MySQL, optimize queries with indexes, transactions, CTEs and JSON, and analyze data with JOINs, views and subqueries.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Database Design and Management

2550 ratings at Udemy

Learn how to design and manage database with ERD, database generation and reversal with Visual Paradigm.

• Udemy
• 2 hours 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Hussein Nasser

Backend Engineering - Beginner

6 ratings

A beginner-friendly foundation in backend engineering, using examples to explain networking, databases, architecture, and performance.

• YouTube
• 13 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Hussein Nasser

Database Page Splits - The Backend Engineering Show

Understand how database page splits fragment indexes, degrade query performance, and how reindexing, fill factors, and index key choices address the problem.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Hussein Nasser

Optimizing Communication and Networking in Database Systems - The Backend Engineering Show

Examines how three-tier web architecture, connection pooling, and multiplexing reshape database communication and affect backend resource use and concurrency.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Conf42

Platform Engineering for FinTech - Database Sharding, Replication, and Scalability Strategies

Explore database sharding, replication models, and architectural patterns for building scalable, secure financial platforms with real-world case studies.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video