[Colloq] Mike Stonebraker 11-30-07

[Diane Keys]

CCIS Distinguished Speaker Series 



presents 

Mike Stonebraker 



MIT – CSAIL 



The End of an Architectural Era 



12:00 p.m., Friday, November 30 th 



20 West Village F 





  

ABSTRACT 





  

In previous papers I predicted the end of “one size fits all” as a commercial relational DBMS paradigm.   These papers presented reasons and experimental evidence that showed that the major RDBMS vendors can be outperformed by 1-2 orders of magnitude by specialized engines in the data warehouse, stream processing, text, and scientific database markets.   



Assuming that specialized engines dominate these markets over time, the current relational DBMS code lines will be left with the business data processing (OLTP) market and hybrid markets where more than one kind of capability is required.   In my recent VLDB ’07 paper I show that current RDBMSs can be beaten by nearly two orders of magnitude in the OLTP market as well.   The experimental evidence comes from comparing a new OLTP prototype, H-Store, which we have built at M.I.T., to a popular RDBMS on the standard transactional benchmark, TPC-C. 



We conclude that the current RDBMS code lines, while attempting to be a “one size fits all” solution, in fact, excel at nothing.   Hence, they are 25 year old legacy code lines that should be retired in favor of a collection of “from scratch” specialized engines.   The DBMS vendors (and the research community) should start with a clean sheet of paper and design systems for tomorrow’s requirements, not continue to push code lines and architectures designed for the yesterday’s   needs. 



This talk explores the experimental evidence supporting the conclusion above.   In addition, I present a series of challenges to the research community that follow from the presumed end of “one size fits all”. 





  



  

BIO 





  

Michael Stonebraker has been a pioneer of data base research and technology for more than a quarter of a century.   He was the main architect of the INGRES relational DBMS, the object-relational DBMS, POSTGRES, and the federated data system, Mariposa.   All three prototypes were developed at the University of California at Berkeley where Stonebraker was a Professor of Computer Science for twenty five years.   He is the founder of three successful Silicon Valley startups, whose objective was to commercialize these prototypes.   





  

Professor Stonebraker is the author of scores of research papers on data base technology, operating systems and the architecture of system software services.   He was awarded the prestigious ACM System Software Award in 1992, for his work on INGRES.   Additionally, he was awarded the first annual Innovation award by the ACM SIGMOD special interest group in 1994, and has been recognized by Forbes magazine as one of the 8 innovators driving the Silicon Valley wealth explosion during their 80 th anniversary edition in 1998.   He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998 and was awarded the IEEE John Von Neumann medal in 2005.   





  

Professor Stonebraker is presently an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at M.I.T. and is the founder and CTO of StreamBase Systems, as well as another startup currently in stealth mode. 





  



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