Today is the new semester for @CMUDBCMU Database Group's Intro to Database Systems! We're going harder into material than ever before. Projects are more challenging but you can use LLMs to help. We also have 10min talks each Wed from leading DB companies. Follow from home/prison on YouTube: https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2025
Everything is available for free to non-CMU students:
• Lectures on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSE8ODhjZXjYMAgsGH-GtY5rJYZ6zjsd5
• Slides + Notes + Homeworks on course website.
• Project source code on GitHub: https://github.com/cmu-db/bustub
• Grading with Gradescope (see FAQ ➡️ https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2025/faq.html#q7)
Special thank you to our Affiliate companies for their support this academic year:
• ClickHouse
• DataStax
• dbt Labs
• Firebolt
• MotherDuck
• RelationalAI
• SingleStore
• SpiralDB
• PingCAP / TiDB
• Yellowbrick
• Yugabyte