Spring 2027

Foundations of Data Management

Covers foundational database concepts, query languages like Datalog, and advanced data management topics such as streams, parallelism, and privacy.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Paris Koutris3.3/5

Summary

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Past student reviews · Anhai Doan

One student rated the course difficulty as low, suggesting the workload was manageable for that term.

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Prerequisites

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Graduate/professional standing

  • Graduate/professional standing
COMPSCI 784

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  • Graduate/professional standing

Professors

Spring 2027

Paris Koutris

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About this rating

Raw average: 3.04/5 from 26 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.84 GPA, 96.9% A/AB (n=32 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.68 GPA, 81.8% A/AB (n=22 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.88 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

PARIS KOUTRIS is recorded teaching in Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2024, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Anhai Doan

A past student found the course instructor to be cool, providing a positive overview of the teaching experience.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.84 GPA, 96.9% A/AB (n=32 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.68 GPA, 81.8% A/AB (n=22 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.88 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Anhai Doan

One student rated the course difficulty as low, suggesting the workload was manageable for that term.

Past student reviews · Anhai Doan

The reviewer gave the teaching quality a high rating, highlighting a positive aspect of the class.

Topics

  • Query languages, conjunctive queries, Datalog, expressivity, and evaluation complexity
  • Data streams, massive parallelism, provenance, uncertain data, and privacy

Skills

  • Analyzing query language expressivity and evaluation complexity
  • Understanding advanced data management systems and techniques

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Catalog & offerings

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COMPSCI 784 · Spring 2027

Foundations of Data Management

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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