The Analytics Engineering Podcast

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

Jan 27, 2023

47:44

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Episode guests

Mike Stonebraker

Andy Palmer

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Episode notes

Evolution of Commercial Ingress over Academic Ingress

01:15

Data Representation Trumps Hardware Power

01:33

The Pitfall of MapReduce Adoption

01:23

Focus on Data Quality in Cloud Data Platforms

01:08

Introduction

2min

The Turing Award Winner - Mike Stonebreaker

2min

What Keeps You Both Coming Back to This Space?

2min

What's Amazing About Data?

2min

The Relationship Between Ingress and Hadoop

3min

Ingress Databases - The First Meal Welcome Source Project

3min

Postgres - What I Learned From Ingress

2min

Postgres, Date and Time - What's the Problem?

3min

How Did You Meet?

2min

10.

Vertica - What Is It All About?

2min

11.

The Data Warehouse Market

2min

12.

Do You Have a Common Enemy in the DBT Analytics Market?

3min

13.

Open Source Data Warehouse Engines

2min

14.

Cloudera and NoSQL - What Are the Connections?

2min

15.

MapReduce Is No Good

3min

16.

Cloudera CEO Michael Sim

3min

17.

Is There a Bigger Thing Than Open Source Vertica?

5min

18.

Cloud and Stillflake

3min

19.

Data Warehouses and Cloud Data Platforms

3min

Mike Stonebraker is a veritable database pioneer and a Turing Award recipient. In addition to teaching at MIT, he is a serial entrepreneur and co-creator of Postgres.

Andy Palmer is a veteran business leader who serves as the CEO of Tamr, a company he co-founded with Mike. Through his seed fund Koa Labs, Andy has helped found and/or fund numerous innovative companies in diverse sectors, including health care, technology, and the life sciences.

In this conversation with Tristan and Julia, Mike and Andy take us through the evolution of database technology over 5+ decades. They share unique insights into relational databases, the switch from row-based to columnar databases, and some of the patterns of database adoption they see repeated over time.

For full show notes and to read 7+ years of back issues of the podcast's companion newsletter, head to https://roundup.getdbt.com.

The Analytics Engineering Podcast is sponsored by dbt Labs.

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The Analytics Engineering Podcast

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

Episode guests

Evolution of Commercial Ingress over Academic Ingress

Data Representation Trumps Hardware Power

The Pitfall of MapReduce Adoption

Focus on Data Quality in Cloud Data Platforms

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