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Famous DB Nerds #2 (cont)

Michael
Stonebraker

  • Professor, UC Berkeley (1971-2000)
  • Developed/commercialised several DBMSs:
    • Ingres: very early relational DBMS
    • Distributed Ingres: very early dDBMS
    • Postgres: object-relational DBMS (Illustra)
    • XPRS: Parallel Postgres
    • 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 apps (Paradigm4)
  • ACM Turing Award 2014
  • IEEE John von Neumann Medal 2005
  • Currently Adjunct Professor at MIT