Grokking Database Fundamentals for Tech Interviews

Master database design, scaling, partitioning, and replicating to ace your tech interviews.

Level:

Beginner

Study Time:

10h

Lessons:

64

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(288 ratings)

1,116 learners

Course Overview

Welcome to **Grokking Database Fundamentals for Tech Interviews**—your gateway to mastering the art of designing, managing, and scaling modern database systems. From understanding the fundamentals of data storage to tackling distributed systems, data partitioning, replication strategies, and fault tolerance, this course equips you with everything you need to...

Course Content

• 12 Chapters • 64 Lessons

1.

Introduction to Database Systems

5 lessons

Course Overview

Overview of Databases

Core Components of Database

Database Architectures

Relational Vs. Non-relational Databases

2.

Data Storage in DBMS

4 lessons

Data Storage Fundamentals

File Organization in DBMS

Data Compression and Encoding

3.

Indexing in DBMS

6 lessons

Introduction to Database Indexes

Single Level Indexing

Tree-Based Indexing Techniques

Hash-Based Indexing

4.

Transaction Management

6 lessons

Understanding the Transaction

5.

Concurrency Control

6 lessons

Understanding the Concurrency Control

Optimistic vs. Pessimistic Concurrency Control

Lock-Based Concurrency Control

Timestamp-Based Concurrency Control

Multiversion Concurrency Control (MVCC)

6.

Distributed Databases, Data Partitioning & Sharding

6 lessons

Fundamentals of Distributed Databases

Partitioning in Databases

Partitioning Types

Sharding in Databases

Distributed Query Processing

7.

Data Replication and Consistency Models

5 lessons

Replication in Databases

Replication Topologies

Understanding the Consistency Models in Databases

The CAP Theorem and Its Implications

8.

Consenus and Leader Election

4 lessons

Understanding the Consensus

Consensus algorithms

Leader Election Strategies

9.

Recovery and Fault Tolerance in Distributed Databases

7 lessons

Understanding the Fault Tolerance

Logging Mechanisms in Databases

Checkpointing and Recovery Basics

Coordinated Recovery in Distributed Systems

High Availability Through Replication and Failover

Ensuring Data Resilience: Redundancy, Mirroring, and Recovery

10.

NoSQL Databases and New Data Models

6 lessons

Introduction to NoSQL

Key-Value Stores

Document-Oriented Databases

Column-Family and Wide-Column Stores

Graph Databases

11.

Advanced Topics and Emerging Trends

5 lessons

In-Memory Databases

NewSQL Databases

Time-Series and Spatial Databases

Big Data and Distributed Processing Frameworks

12.

Database Design Case Studies

4 lessons

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