This book celebrates Michael Stonebraker’s accomplishments that led to his 2014 ACM A.M. Turing Award ‘for fundamental contributions to the concepts and practices underlying modern database systems.’
The book describes, for the broad computing community, the unique nature, significance, and impact of Mike’s achievements in advancing modern database systems over more than forty years. Today, data is considered the world’s most valuable resource, whether it is in the tens of millions of databases used to manage the world’s businesses and governments, in the billions of databases in our smartphones and watches, or residing elsewhere, as yet unmanaged, awaiting the elusive next generation of database systems. Every one of the millions or billions of databases includes features that are celebrated by the 2014 Turing Award and are described in this book.
Why should I care about databases? What is a database? What is data management? What is a database management system (DBMS)? These are just some of the questions that this book answers, in describing the development of data management through the achievements of Mike Stonebraker and his over 200 collaborators. In reading the stories in this book, you will discover core data management concepts that were developed over the two greatest eras (so far) of data management technology.
The book is a collection of 36 stories written by Mike and 38 of his collaborators: 23 world-leading database researchers, 11 world-class systems engineers, and 4 business partners. If you are an aspiring researcher, engineer, or entrepreneur you might read these stories to find these turning points as practice to tilt at your own computer-science windmills, to spur yourself to your next step of innovation and achievement.
Table of Content
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 / BiographiesAbout the author
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.More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
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