[gerdesj]

"This course is a comprehensive study of the internals of modern database management systems. It will cover the core concepts and fundamentals of the components that are used in large-scale analytical systems (OLAP). The class will stress both efficiency and correctness of the implementation of these ideas. The course is appropriate for graduate students in software systems and for advanced undergraduates with dirty systems programming skills. "

That class drops a few buzz words in its advert: OLAP and dirty!

What sort of "simple" RDBMS are you envisioning that is different from the current lot?

[ashwin110]

Nothing different if I'm being honest, I'm just looking to learn and was having some starting issues so I was looking for guidance on that. Realistically speaking, if I can build out a storage engine and execution planner that isn't terrible, I'll call it a success as I would've learnt what I'm looking for

[krackers]

That's not the only the class drops (the course has its own DJ).