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Michael Stonebraker

Michael Stonebraker

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Computer Science
USA
2023

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Computer Science

D-Index
110
Citations
54615
World Ranking
224
National Ranking
126

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2014 - A. M. Turing Award For fundamental contributions to the concepts and practices underlying modern database systems.
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2005 - IEEE John von Neumann Medal "For contributions to the design, implementation, and commercialization of relational and object-relational database systems."
  • 1997 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For development and commercialization of relational and object-relational database systems.
  • 1994 - ACM Fellow The INGRES and System R systems demonstrated that a practical and efficient database management system (DBMS) could be implemented based on the relational data model.
  • 1988 - ACM Software System Award Gerald Held, Michael Stonebraker, Eugene Wong

Overview

Michael Stonebraker is affiliated with MIT in the United States and works within the field of Computer Science with a particular focus on areas including Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems and Management, and Signal Processing.

Their research covers various topics such as Cloud Computing and Resource Management, Advanced Data Storage Technologies, Advanced Database Systems and Queries, Distributed systems and fault tolerance, Scientific Computing and Data Management, Data Quality and Management, and Data Management and Algorithms.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Stonebraker include:

  • The Seattle Report on Database Research (2020, ACM SIGMOD Record)
  • Pattern functional dependencies for data cleaning (2020, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment)
  • FlexPushdownDB (2021, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment)
  • The Seattle report on database research (2022, Communications of the ACM)
  • Horizon (2021, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment)

Frequent co-authors with whom Stonebraker has published multiple works are:

  • Xiangyao Yu
  • Michael Cafarella
  • Matei Zaharia
  • Tim Kraska
  • Peter Kraft

Stonebraker's works appear frequently in several publication venues, predominantly:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • ACM SIGMOD Record
  • The VLDB Journal
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data

Stonebraker has contributed to book publications as well, including a title published by Springer Science+Business Media:

  • Heterogeneous Data Management, Polystores, and Analytics for Healthcare (2021)

Awards received by Stonebraker include:

  • A. M. Turing Award (2014) for contributions to concepts and practices underlying modern database systems
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2010)
  • IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2005) for contributions to design, implementation, and commercialization of relational and object-relational database systems
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering (1997) for development and commercialization of relational and object-relational database systems
  • ACM Fellow (1994) recognizing the INGRES and System R systems demonstrated as practical and efficient DBMS implementations
  • ACM Software System Award (1988) shared with Gerald Held and Eugene Wong

Best Publications

  • C-store: a column-oriented DBMS

    Mike Stonebraker;Daniel J. Abadi;Adam Batkin;Xuedong Chen

  • Aurora: a new model and architecture for data stream management

    Daniel J. Abadi;Don Carney;Ugur Çetintemel;Mitch Cherniack

  • The end of an architectural era: (it's time for a complete rewrite)

    Michael Stonebraker;Samuel Madden;Daniel J. Abadi;Stavros Harizopoulos

  • A comparison of approaches to large-scale data analysis

    Andrew Pavlo;Erik Paulson;Alexander Rasin;Daniel J. Abadi

  • Aurora: a data stream management system

    D. Abadi;D. Carney;U. Çetintemel;M. Cherniack

  • Monitoring streams: a new class of data management applications

    Don Carney;Uǧur Çetintemel;Mitch Cherniack;Christian Convey

  • Implementation techniques for main memory database systems

    David J DeWitt;Randy H Katz;Frank Olken;Leonard D Shapiro

  • The design and implementation of INGRES

    Michael Stonebraker;Gerald Held;Eugene Wong;Peter Kreps

  • The design of POSTGRES

    Michael Stonebraker;Lawrence A. Rowe

  • The 8 requirements of real-time stream processing

    Michael Stonebraker;Uǧur Çetintemel;Stan Zdonik

  • Load shedding in a data stream manager

    Nesime Tatbul;Uğur Çetintemel;Stan Zdonik;Mitch Cherniack

  • Chabot: Retrieval from a Relational Database of Images

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  • Migrating Legacy Systems: Gateways, interfaces and the incremental approach

    Michael L. Brodie;Michael Stonebraker

  • H-store: a high-performance, distributed main memory transaction processing system

    Robert Kallman;Hideaki Kimura;Jonathan Natkins;Andrew Pavlo

  • The POSTGRES data model

    Lawrence A. Rowe;Michael Stonebraker

  • The Case for Shared Nothing.

    Michael Stonebraker

  • SQL databases v. NoSQL databases

    Michael Stonebraker

  • MapReduce and parallel DBMSs: friends or foes?

    Michael Stonebraker;Daniel Abadi;David J. DeWitt;Sam Madden

  • The implementation of POSTGRES

    M. Stonebraker;L.A. Rowe;M. Hirohama

  • Implementation of integrity constraints and views by query modification

    Michael Stonebraker

  • The POSTGRES next generation database management system

    Michael Stonebraker;Greg Kemnitz

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph M. Hellerstein
Joseph M. Hellerstein University of California, Berkeley
Mourad Ouzzani
Mourad Ouzzani Qatar Computing Research Institute
Lawrence A. Rowe
Lawrence A. Rowe FX Palo Alto Laboratory
Andrew Pavlo
Andrew Pavlo Carnegie Mellon University
David J. DeWitt
David J. DeWitt University of Wisconsin–Madison
Ihab F. Ilyas
Ihab F. Ilyas University of Waterloo
Michael J. Carey
Michael J. Carey University of California, Irvine
David Maier
David Maier Portland State University

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