Technology-Enabled Database Education: Challenges andOpportunities

Abstract

Motivation: User-friendly systems and tools are paramount for facilitating learning of database systems. In many universities around the world, database systems courses are supplemented with the use of industrial-strength relational database management systems (RDBMS). Although there exist a few efforts on mini RDBMS for learners to practice implementing a database kernel, e.g., Minibase [6], unfortunately, there is a lack of learner-friendly technological support to facilitate the learning of various core components of a database systems course, such as database storage and indexing, relational query processing and optimization, and transaction management.