(Feb 1) Concurrency Control and Recovery; Mike Franklin, 1997 [pdf link]
(Feb 6) Joachim W. Schmidt. Some High Level Language Constructs for Data of Type Relation. ACM Transactions on Database Systems, 2(3), 1977, 247-261.
More background:
Goetz Graefe: Query Evaluation Techniques for Large Databases. ACM Comput. Surv. 25(2): 73-170 (1993) [link]
Database System Concepts; Avi Silberschatz, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan. Two Appendixes covering network model
and hierarchical model in detail are available on the book webpage. [link]
(Feb 8) Parallel database systems: the future of high performance database systems; DeWitt, Gray; CACM 1992
(Feb 8) Stonebraker et al. C-store: A Column-oriented DBMS. SIGMOD, 2005.
(Feb 13) MapReduce: A Flexible Data Processing Tool; Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat; CACM 2010
(Feb 13) MapReduce and Parallel DBMSs: Friends or Foes? Stonebraker et al.; CACM 2010
(Feb 15) Yuan Yu, Michael Isard, Dennis Fetterly, Mihai Budiu. DryadLINQ: A System for General-Purpose Distributed Data-Parallel Computing Using a High-Level Language. OSDI, 2008.
(Feb 20) Resilient Distributed Datasets: A Fault-Tolerant Abstraction for In-Memory Cluster Computing; Zaharia et al.; NSDI 2012
(Feb 20) Spark SQL: Relational data processing in Spark; SIGMOD 2015.
Feb 22, Feb 27, Mar 1, Mar 6, Mar 8, Mar 13: Query Processing and Query Optimization[show/hide]
(Mar 27) Cristian Diaconu, Craig Freedman, Erik Ismert, Per-Ake Larson, Pravin Mittal, Ryan Stonecipher, Nitin Verma, Mike Zwilling. Hekaton: SQL Server's Memory-optimized OLTP Engine. SIGMOD, 2013.
(Mar 27) Stavros Harizopoulos, Daniel J. Abadi, Samuel Madden, Michael Stonebraker. OLTP Through the Looking Glass, and What We Found There. SIGMOD, 2008.
(Mar 29) RDF-3X: a RISC-style Engine for RDF; VLDB 2008[link to pdf]
(Apr 3) Relational Databases for Querying XML Documents: Limitations and Opportunities; Jayavel Shanmugasundaram et al.; VLDB 1999
(Apr 5) GraphX: Graph Processing in a Distributed Dataflow Framework; OSDI 2014 [link]