This book celebrates Michael Stonebraker's accomplishments that led to his 2014 ACM A.M. Turing Award «for fundamental contributions to the concepts and practices underlying modern database systems.» The book describes, for the broad computing community, the unique nature, significance, and impact of Mike's achievements in advancing modern database systems over more than forty years. Today, data is considered the world's most valuable resource, whether it is in the tens of...
