[alexnewman]

Everyone I have met who have worked a long time in the database industry considers stonebreaker to be

- Overrated - Overly Self Promoting - Mostly not credible

That being said I love his work and his history. The red book is super famous. What gives?

[rbetts]

Stonebraker is quite down to earth to work with - he cares about practical ideas and systems that can be plausibly constructed. You can decide if one of the primary collaborators of Ingres, Postgres, Streambase, Vertica, VoltDB, Tamr... is over-rated. Certainly a number of commercial efforts didn't find great commercial success but the technology he participated in pioneering has found its way into almost every modern database system in use.

[bambu]

Not credible? Stonebraker is a Turing Award winning MIT professor who's worked in the database industry for ~50 years.

Ask your friends what gives

[frankmcsherry]

Stonebraker has done a lot of fine work, but also has a lot of false negatives; he got down on recursive queries, on data-parallel compute, and generally most other things that he's not directly working on. It ends up with an in-crowd of folks who think he is great, and an out-crowd of folks frustrated by his constant unfounded dumping.

I've personally found it is hard to take him seriously when he says a thing, and you should first check which company he is currently flogging. Doesn't mean he is wrong, .. but check.

[alexnewman]

I should say I have been writing production databases for almost 10 years. The people I talked to have more than 20 years exp

[alexnewman]

also sorry for the last name pun

[StavrosK]

What's the pun?