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Author Brodie, Michael L

Title Making Databases Work : the Pragmatic Wisdom of Michael Stonebraker
Published San Rafael : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (732 pages)
Series ACM Bks
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Contents Intro -- 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 -- 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 -- Blank Page
Summary 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 smartph
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ISBN 9781947487178
1947487175