Database Systems Courses and Certifications

Kode Kloud

How Vector Databases Work - AI Search and Semantic Understanding

Discover how vector databases revolutionize AI search through semantic understanding, embeddings, and similarity scoring with hands-on ChromaDB implementation demos.

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

ByteGrad

The Ultimate Next.js Dashboard Stack - Shadcn, WebSocket/SSE, OLTP/OLAP Database

Master building powerful analytics dashboards with Next.js using Shadcn UI, WebSocket/SSE for real-time updates, and OLTP/OLAP databases including DuckDB and Hydra integration.

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

IIT Madras;  NPTEL

Introduction to Database Systems

Learn to design and use database systems through ER and relational models, SQL, indexing, query processing, normalization, and transaction processing.

• Swayam
• 12 weeks
• No Longer Offered
• Free Online Course

IIT Kanpur;  NPTEL

Fundamentals of database systems

Learn the basics of database systems: relational databases, normalization, query processing and transactions, plus a brief look at NoSQL databases used in big data.

• Swayam
• 8 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Not Currently Offered
• Free Certificate

CMU Database Group

Amazon Redshift Data Warehouse System - Lecture 22

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Explore Amazon Redshift's architecture, design principles, and performance optimizations for large-scale data warehousing in this advanced database systems lecture.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Strange Loop Conference

When "Worst" is Best in Distributed Systems

Learn how designing for worst-case network behavior can improve typical-case latency, scalability, and concurrency in distributed systems.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Oracle

Hyperscale and Geographically Distributed Databases with Oracle Sharding

Oracle Sharding scales a single global database for hyperscale applications, geographic distribution, data sovereignty, and high availability.

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

Rawkode Academy

Introduction to Vitess - Database Clustering and Horizontal Scaling

See how Vitess enables horizontal MySQL scaling, from creating a cluster to scaling it and discussing sharding.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

GOTO Conferences

Glean - Data about Code

An introduction to Glean, a system for storing and querying strongly typed information about code at large scale.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Evaluation of FoundationDB in Financial Services

The talk weighs FoundationDB’s strengths and drawbacks for trading and risk workloads against SecDB’s multi-region architecture.

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

NDC Conferences

How to Choose the Right Database for Your Application

A workload-centered guide to choosing among specialized databases, comparing how their data models and storage designs handle durability, scale, search, and real-time analysis.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

CMU Database Group

Vector Indexes, Inverted Indexes, Filters, and Tries - Lecture 9

Explore advanced indexing techniques including vector indexes, inverted indexes, filters, and tries for efficient database querying and optimization.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

CMU Database Group

Tree Indexes: B+Trees - Lecture 8

Explore B+Tree structures and their implementation in database systems, focusing on efficient data organization and retrieval techniques.

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

CMU Database Group

Memory and Disk I/O Management - Lecture 6

Explore memory and disk I/O management in database systems, covering buffer pool organization, replacement policies, and optimizations for efficient data access and storage.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

CMU Database Group

Database Storage: Log-Structured Merge Trees and Tuples - Lecture 4

Explore log-structured merge trees and tuple storage in databases, covering advanced concepts for efficient data management and organization.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video