Principles of database management : the practical guide to storing, managing and analyzing big and small data / Wilfried Lemahieu, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, Seppe vanden Broucke, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, Bart Baesens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Databases and database design -- Fundamental concepts of database management -- Architecture and categorization of DBMSs -- Conceptual data modeling using the (E)ER model and uml class diagram -- Organizational aspects of data management -- Types of database systems -- Legacy databases -- Relational databases: the relational model -- Relational databases: structured query language (SQL) -- Object oriented databases and object persistence -- Extended relational databases -- XML databases -- NoSQL databases -- Physical data storage, transaction management, and database access -- Physical file organization and indexing -- Physical database organization -- Basics of transaction management -- Accessing databases and database APIs -- Data distribution and distributed transaction management -- Data warehousing, data governance and (Big) data analytics -- Data warehousing and business intelligence -- Data integration, data quality and data governance -- Big data -- Analytics.