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
4.2
(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 build reliable and efficient database solutions.

Whether you're a software engineer, data architect, or aspiring backend developer, this course offers clear explanations, real-world examples, and practical insights to help you stand out in interviews. Let's dive in and start building your expertise in database engineering today!

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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
Quiz
Introduction to Database Indexes
Single Level Indexing
Tree-Based Indexing Techniques
Hash-Based Indexing
Bloom Filters
Quiz
Understanding the Transaction
Atomicity
Consistency
Isolation
Durability
Quiz
Understanding the Concurrency Control
Optimistic vs. Pessimistic Concurrency Control
Lock-Based Concurrency Control
Timestamp-Based Concurrency Control
Multiversion Concurrency Control (MVCC)
Quiz
Fundamentals of Distributed Databases
Partitioning in Databases
Partitioning Types
Sharding in Databases
Distributed Query Processing
Quiz
Replication in Databases
Replication Topologies
Understanding the Consistency Models in Databases
The CAP Theorem and Its Implications
Quiz
Understanding the Consensus
Consensus algorithms
Leader Election Strategies
Quiz
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
Quiz
Introduction to NoSQL
Key-Value Stores
Document-Oriented Databases
Column-Family and Wide-Column Stores
Graph Databases
Quiz
In-Memory Databases
NewSQL Databases
Time-Series and Spatial Databases
Big Data and Distributed Processing Frameworks
Quiz
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