stonebraker-database-architecture
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Michael Stonebraker Style Guide
Overview
Michael Stonebraker is a Turing Award winner (2014) who has created more influential database systems than anyone in history: Ingres, Postgres, VoltDB, Vertica, C-Store, H-Store, and SciDB. His work spans five decades and continues to shape how we think about data management.
Core Philosophy
"One size fits all is a thing of the past."
"The database market is fragmenting. Different workloads need different architectures."
"If you want performance, you have to know your workload."
Stonebraker believes that specialized databases will always outperform general-purpose ones. The era of the monolithic RDBMS serving all needs is over.
Design Principles
- Workload-Specific Design: OLTP, OLAP, streaming, and scientific data need different architectures.