Fall 2026 Course Calendar

Advanced Database System Design
Gregory S. DeLozier, PhD / MW 5:30-6:45

Remaining class meetings, beginning with Alternative Platforms on October 5. Topic dates may change as we work through the material.

Date	Topic
Mon, Oct 5	Alternative Platforms
Wed, Oct 7	Introduction to MongoDB with Mongita
Mon, Oct 12	Mongita queries, updates, cursors, and persistence
Wed, Oct 14	Mongo App
Mon, Oct 19	Mongo App: relationships and validation
Wed, Oct 21	Application exercise and SQL/document comparison
Mon, Oct 26	MongoDB Atlas
Wed, Oct 28	Connect and run the application on Atlas
Mon, Nov 2	Mongo Indexes
Wed, Nov 4	Query plans and performance experiments
Mon, Nov 9	Installing and Securing Database Servers: MongoDB and PostgreSQL on Linux, Windows, and macOS; accounts and security
Wed, Nov 11	Veterans Day - no class
Mon, Nov 16	Geospatial Queries
Wed, Nov 18	Geospatial application exercise
Mon, Nov 23	Project workshop
Wed, Nov 25	Thanksgiving break - no class
Mon, Nov 30	Replication, sharding, and deployment tradeoffs
Wed, Dec 2	Database security and current trends
Mon, Dec 7	Final projects
Wed, Dec 9	Course review and project discussion

Finals week: December 14-20. The specific exam time for this course is still to be confirmed.

University holidays and semester dates: Kent State University, Academic Calendar:
https://www.kent.edu/academic-calendar