Michael Stonebraker

Michael Stonebraker ( born October 11, 1943 in Newburyport, Massachusetts) is an American computer scientist who specializes in research and development of databases. He was 25 years professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he developed the database systems Ingres and Postgres. Currently he works as an adjunct professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Stonebraker studied at Princeton University and the University of Michigan. In the 1970s, Stonebraker, Eugene Wong, together with developed at Berkeley Ingres database. In 1982, he left Berkeley to commercialize Ingres commercially. 1985 returned Stonebraker back to Berkeley, where he worked in a post - Ingres project with the problems of relational databases. For this project, the Postgres database was created. Postgres introduced rules, procedures, temporal data management, extensible types and object-relational concepts in the world of databases.

In 2005 he founded after appropriate research at MIT with Andrew Palmer, the company Vertica, which developed a specialized data warehousing split -oriented database management system and markets.

Also in 2005 he was awarded the John von Neumann Medal for contributions to design, implementation, and commercialization of relational and object-oriented database systems. In 1988 he received the ACM Software System Award for Ingres.