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Michael Stonebraker

Also Known As Mike Stonebraker · Michael Ralph Stonebraker
Information Systems

Michael Ralph Stonebraker is an American computer scientist specializing in database systems, whose research and products through a series of academic prototypes and commercial startups are central to many relational databases. He is the founder of many database companies, including Ingres Corporation, Illustra, Paradigm4, StreamBase Systems, Tamr, Vertica and VoltDB, and served as chief technical officer of Informix. He received the 2014 Turing Award, often described as the Nobel Prize for computing, for his contributions to database research.

Facts
Birth Year
1943 1
Birth Date
1943-10-11 2
Award
SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award 1
Award
Turing Award 1
Award
ACM Fellow 1
Award
IEEE John von Neumann Medal 1
Award
ACM Software System Award 1
Contribution Kind
System 3
Highest Honour
Turing Award 2
Michael Stonebraker
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VoltDB

Michael Stonebraker
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In Field

Databases, Fields
Source Wikipedia: Michael Stonebraker

Invented

VoltDB, Systems
Source Wikipedia: VoltDB

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How Ingres made relational databases practical, Articles
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Turing Award

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Source Wikipedia: Michael Stonebrakertier 2

Member Of

University of California, Berkeley

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Source Wikipedia: Michael Stonebrakertier 2

Nationality

United States

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1. Wikidata: Michael Stonebraker
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2. Wikipedia: Michael Stonebraker
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Lead section
    born October 11, 1943
  • Infobox: awards
    IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2005) ACM Turing Award (2014)
  • In Group: Data Management Systems
  • In Field: Databases, Lead paragraph
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3. Engineering and Technology History Wiki (ETHW, IEEE): Michael Stonebraker, Engineering and Technology History Wiki
Engineering and Technology History Wiki (ETHW, IEEE)Biography
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Michael Stonebraker made critically important contributions to relational database software, inventing many of the architectures and strategies that are the foundation of today's multi-billion-dollar-a-year database software industry.
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Wikipedia: VoltDB
Wikimedia FoundationInvented: VoltDB, Lead sentence
Quote, Invented: VoltDB, Lead sentence
Volt Active Data (formerly VoltDB) is an in-memory database designed by Michael Stonebraker, Sam Madden, and Daniel Abadi.
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