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Michael Stonebraker (born October 11, 1943) is a computer scientist specializing in database...

Michael Stonebraker (born October 11, 1943) is a computer scientist specializing in database research and development. His career covers, and helped create, the majority of the existing relational database market today. He is also the founder of Ingres, Illustra, Cohera, StreamBase Systems, Vertica, VoltDB, SciDB and was previously the CTO of Informix. He is also an editor for the book Readings in Database Systems. Stonebraker earned his bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1965 and his master's degree and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1967 and 1971, respectively. He has received several awards, including the IEEE John von Neumann Medal and the first SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award. In 1994 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. Michael Stonebraker was a Professor of Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley for twenty five years, where he developed the INGRES and POSTGRES relational database systems. He is currently an adjunct professor at MIT. In 1973 Stonebraker and his colleague Eugene Wong decided to start researching relational database systems after reading a series of seminal papers published by