The database system course examines the principles of the design of systems that can manipulate and retrieve data from large databases using high level formal languages. Topics include data base development lifecycle, data modeling, database architectures, database design theory, data acquisition, models for database systems, data integration and cleaning, query processing, concurrency control and transaction management, data search and recovery, distributed and parallel data management in cluster computing and peer-to-peer, web pages, sensor networks and RFID, data storage, inference and data mining, data security and privacy, declarative data-intensive systems, data visualization, query optimization and stream algorithms, current trends in development of database systems.