Making Databases Work: The Pragmatic Wisdom of Michael Stonebraker

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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. Howto 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: SciDB and Scientific Data Managment 21. Data Unification at Scale: Data Tamer 22. The BigDAWG 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/ StreamBase Codelines: A Tale of Three Systems 27. The Vertica Codeline Codeline 28. The VoltDB Codeline 29. The SciDB Codeline: Crossing the Chasm 30. The Tamr Codeline 31. The BigDAWG 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 OLTP 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