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A Romp Through Database History (w/ Postgres co-creator Mike Stonebraker + Andy Palmer)

The Analytics Engineering Podcast

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Vertica - What Is It All About?

Vertica was one of the first databases that kind of flipped that on its head. Mike and his academic colleagues wrote a great paper called One Size with Not Aftidallen Database Systems. They invented this thing called materialized use in Oracle, which kind of enabled Oracle to do re-oriented stuff but didn't really make it very cost efficient at the time. And so by the early 2000s rolled around, people were using Oracle and DB2 and SQL Server to do all these unnatural acts of large scale re-oriented workloads.

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