Making Databases Work: The Pragmatic Wisdom of Michael Stonebraker

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