Michael L. Brodie 
Making Databases Work [PDF ebook] 
The Pragmatic Wisdom of Michael Stonebraker

Table of Contents: Data Management Technology Kairometer: The Historical Context / Foreword / Preface / Introduction / PART I 2014 ACM A.M. TURING AWARD PAPER AND LECTURE / The Land Sharks Are on the Squawk Box / PART II MIKE STONEBRAKER’S CAREER / 1. Make it Happen: The Life of Michael Stonebraker / PART III MIKE STONEBRAKER SPEAKS OUT: AN INTERVIEW WITH MARIANNE WINSLETT / 2. Mike Stonebraker Speaks Out: An Interview / PART IV THE BIG PICTURE / 3. Leadership and Advocacy / 4. Perspectives: The 2014 ACM Turing Award / 5. Birth of an Industry: Path to the Turing Award / 6. A Perspective of Mike from a 50-Year Vantage Point / PART V STARTUPS / 7. How to Start a Company in Five (Not So) Easy Steps / 8. How to Create and Run a Stonebraker Startup– The Real Story / 9. Getting Grownups in the Room: A VC Perspective / PART VI DATABASE SYSTEMS RESEARCH / 10. Where Good Ideas Come From and How to Exploit Them / 11. Where We Have Failed / 12. Stonebraker and Open Source / 13. The Relational Database Management Systems Genealogy / PART VII CONTRIBUTIONS BY SYSTEM / 14. Research Contributions of Mike Stonebraker: An Overview / PART VII.A RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS BY SYSTEM / 15. The Later Ingres Years / 16. Looking Back at Postgres / 17. Databases Meet the Stream Processing Era / 18. C-Store: Through the Eyes of a Ph.D. Student / 19. In-Memory, Horizontal, and Transactional: The H-Store OLTP DBMS Project / 20. Scaling Mountains: Sci DB and Scientific Data Management / 21. Data Unification at Scale: Data Tamer / 22. The Big DAWG Polystore System / 23. Data Civilizer: End-to-End Support for Data Discovery, Integration, and Cleaning / PART VII.B CONTRIBUTIONS FROM BUILDING SYSTEMS / 24. The Commercial Ingres Codeline / 25. The Postgres and Illustra Codelines / 26. The Aurora/Borealis/Steam Base Codelines: A Tale of Three Systems / 27. The Vertica Codeline / 28. The Volt DB Codeline / 29. The Sci DB Codeline: Crossing the Chasm / 30. The Tamr Codeline / 31. The Big DAWG Codeline / PART VIII PERSPECTIVES / 32. IBM Relational Database Code Bases / 33. Aurum: A Story about Research Taste / 34. Nice: Or What It Was Like to Be Mike’s Student / 35. Michael Stonebraker: Competitor, Collaborator, Friend / 36. The Changing of the Database Guard / PART IX SEMINAL WORKS OF MICHAEL STONEBRAKER AND HIS COLLABORATORS / OTLP Through the Looking Glass, and What We Found There / ‘One Size Fits All’: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone / The End of an Architectural Era (It’s Time for a Complete Rewrite) / C-Store: A Column-Oriented DBMS / The Implementation of POSTGRES / The Design and Implementation of INGRES / The Collected Works of Michael Stonebraker / References / Index / Biographies

Michael L. Brodie has over 45 years of experience in research and industrial practice in databases, distributed systems, integration, artificial intelligence, and multidisciplinary problem-solving. Dr. Brodie is a research scientist at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; advises startups; serves on advisory boards of national and international research organizations; and is an adjunct professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway and at the University of Technology, Sydney. As Chief Scientist of IT at Verizon for over 20 years, he was responsible for advanced technologies, architectures, and methodologies for IT strategies and for guiding industrial-scale deployments of emerging technologies. He has served on several National Academy of Science committees. Current interests include Big Data, Data Science, and Information Systems evolution. Dr. Brodie holds a Ph.D. in databases from the University of Toronto and a Doctor of Science(honoris causa) from the National University of Ireland.