Saarland University releases ExplainDB, an educational Python database system
Researchers at Saarland University's Big Data Analytics Group have published ExplainDB, a teaching DBMS written in Python paired with a set of Jupyter notebooks covering storage, indexing, and query processing. The materials accompany Prof. Jens Dittrich's Database Systems 2024/25 lecture series on YouTube and can be run directly in a browser via mybinder.org without installation.