VoltDB's Dr. Michael Stonebraker of MIT, UC Berkeley, and Ingres and Postgres fame, will be there to present the founding principles of solving modern data-velocity problems: "Data is growing faster than hard drives," "Move the computation to the data, never move the data to the computation," "Bet on main memory because there's no other way to go fast," and "Run transactions to completion, and you eliminate locking and multithreading," are central to his beliefs.

Join VoltDB live and learn firsthand from database legend Mike Stonebraker

Not-so-coincidentally, they're also central concepts of VoltDB.

We'll also have VoltDB folks on-hand who know the market - and can share insights on some of the hottest opportunities out there today, where solving data velocity problems is big business. They'll also get you up and running on VoltDB - because it's good to have a practical way to apply all this know-how, after all.

Mike Stonebraker

Co-Founder & CTO,
VoltDB

Dr. Michael Stonebraker has been a pioneer of database research and technology for more than a quarter of a century. He was the main architect of the Ingres relational DBMS, and the object-relational DBMS PostgreSQL. These prototypes were developed at the University of California at Berkeley where Stonebraker was a Professor of Computer Science for twenty five years.

More recently at MIT, he was a co-architect of the Aurora Borealis stream processing engine (commercialized as StreamBase), the C-Store column-oriented DBMS (commercialized as Vertica), and the H-Store transaction processing engine (commercialized as VoltDB). Currently, he is working on science-oriented DBMSs and search engines for accessing the deep web. He is the co-founder of six venture capital-backed start-ups.

Professor Stonebraker is the author of scores of research papers on database technology, operating systems and the architecture of system software services. He was awarded the ACM System Software Award in 1992, for his work on Ingres. Additionally, he was awarded the first annual Innovation award by the ACM SIGMOD special interest group in 1994, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997. He was awarded the IEEE John Von Neumann award in 2005, and is presently Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at MIT.