The focus of this course is on data management techniques and tools for storing and analyzing very large volumes of data. Topics include: cloud computing; virtualization; distributed file systems; large data processing using Map-Reduce; data modeling, storage, indexing, and query processing for big data; key-value storage systems, columnar databases, NoSQL systems; big data technologies and tools; large-scale stream processing systems; data analytics frameworks; big data applications, including graph processing, recommendation systems, and machine learning.