44 Years of Mike
summary
Ingres launches in 1973 and seeds a direction shift in relational systems, Muffin in 1979 implements a shared‑nothing parallel DB five years before others, Direct reuses Ingres code to make a parallel machine viable, the 1984 Wisconsin benchmark exposes surprising performance regressions, the quad chart frames ADT and later sells Illustra (1997) for a surprisingly large sum, Project Sequoia (2000) applies DB tech to earth science, and 2008 blog critiques force a reexamination of MapReduce versus parallel SQL.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:27Early academic struggles
- 2:29Birth of Ingres
- 3:53Distributed Ingres talks
- 4:54Muffin project
- 5:58Mentorship and DeWitt
- 6:38Berkeley sabbatical
- 7:20Feedback on Wisconsin benchmark
- 8:04Crushing OOD rebellion
- 9:05Illustra success
- 9:49Project Sequoia
- 10:32Founding Cider conference
- 11:13MIT sabbatical
- 11:56Critique of MapReduce
- 12:39Mike’s database impact
- 13:43Mentorship and friendship
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