The main reference for this course is:

• Database System Concepts (5th Edition, 2005) - Abraham Silberschatz, Henry F. Korth and S. Sudarshan

The other required references are:

• Database Management Systems, 2003 - R. Ramakrishnan, J. Gehrke

• An Introduction to Database Systems (7th Edition, 2000) - C.J. Date

The topics covered in this course can be classified as follows:

• Object-oriented Databases
• Object-relational Databases
• XML Database
• Query Processing
• Query Optimization
• Transactions
• Concurrency Control
• Recovery Systems
• Database System Architectures
• Distributed Databases
• Parallel Databases

Some of the papers covered in the "Advanced Database Systems" course at CMU (Carnegie Mellon University) are listed in the link given below:

Reading List