Michael Stonebraker, Pioneer in Database Systems Architecture, Receives 2014 ACM Turing Award
Michael Stonebracker is being recognized for fundamental contributions to the concepts and practices underlying modern database systems. Stonebraker is the inventor of many concepts that were crucial to making databases a reality and that are used in almost all modern database systems. His work on INGRES introduced the notion of query modification, used for integrity constraints and views.His later work on Postgres introduced the object-relational model, effectively merging databases with abstract data types while keeping the database separate from the programming language.
Stonebraker's implementations of
INGRES and Postgres demonstrated how to engineer database systems
that support these concepts; he released these systems as open
software, which allowed their widespread adoption and their code
bases have been incorporated into many modern database systems.
Since
the pathbreaking work on INGRES and Postgres, Stonebraker
has continued to be a thought leader in the database community and
has had a number of other influential ideas including implementation
techniques for column stores and scientific databases and for
supporting on-line transaction processing and stream processing.
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