Michael Stonebraker’s name probably doesn’t jump very high in many minds outside computer science, yet it was Stonebraker’s quick thinking 40 years ago that paved the way for the industry these better-knowns call home.
MapReduce, Hadoop, MongoDB, Cassandra, etc. Stonebraker responds with VoltDB and now SciDB keeping ACID and improving speed.
“In the 1980s, the ‘answer’ was if all you wanted to do was business data processing, then it was relational databases. Try to stretch SQL to do everything, though, and that’s an unnatural act.”
