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Famous DB Nerds #1 (cont)

Michael
Stonebraker

  • Professor, UC Berkeley (1971-2000)
  • Developed/commercialised several DBMSs:
    • Ingres: relational DBMS
    • Postgres: object-relational DBMS (Illustra)
    • Mariposa: federated data system (Cohera)
    • Aurora: stream processing (StreamBase)
    • C-store: column-oriented DBMS (Vertica)
    • Morpheus: data integration system (Goby)
    • H-store: distributed XP system (VoltDB)
    • SciDB: DBMS for scientific applications
  • ACM System Software Award 1992
  • IEEE John von Neumann Medal 2005
  • Famous opinion paper on OS vs DBMS
  • Recent opinion papers against NoSQL
  • Currently Adjunct Professor at MIT