Thanks for joining the conversation Andy. Of course, I'm well familiar with Stonebraker and in fact my last post (January 2024) has a sub-headline "Stonebraker's at it again" in reference to his latest venture, DBOS. It's remarkable to me just how much innovation is happening in what some might consider a mature market. My view is that there's so much data, it's growing so fast, there are so many new data types, and now with AI...I see no end to this fast-paced innovation. I enjoyed reading your post, thanks for sharing.
yeah - no end in sight - when we were starting Vertica we estimated the size of the DB market at $20B growing low double digits - boy were we wrong - set our sights too low....
Great post - hard to remember what it was like in the early 2000's in database systems but there were so few choices - my partner Mike Stonebraker published this paper to try to get people innovating wrt core database system design https://cs.brown.edu/~ugur/fits_all.pdf - remarkable that is 20 years we now face too many choices and most customers pray for consolidation/simplification - posted a few of my thoughts here : https://medium.com/koalabs/one-size-does-not-fit-all-in-database-systems-true-in-early-2000s-now-we-have-the-opposite-d41146bc6693
Thanks for joining the conversation Andy. Of course, I'm well familiar with Stonebraker and in fact my last post (January 2024) has a sub-headline "Stonebraker's at it again" in reference to his latest venture, DBOS. It's remarkable to me just how much innovation is happening in what some might consider a mature market. My view is that there's so much data, it's growing so fast, there are so many new data types, and now with AI...I see no end to this fast-paced innovation. I enjoyed reading your post, thanks for sharing.
yeah - no end in sight - when we were starting Vertica we estimated the size of the DB market at $20B growing low double digits - boy were we wrong - set our sights too low....