MIT Prof. Michael Stonebraker: “The Traditional RDBMS Wisdom is All Wrong”

A very interesting talk about the future of DBMS was recently given at EPFL by MIT Professor and VoltDB Co-founder and CTO Michael Stonebraker, who also gave us Ingres and Postgres. In a bit less than one hour, he explains his views with respect to the three main pillars of database management systems: OLAP / Data warehouses … Continue reading MIT Prof. Michael Stonebraker: “The Traditional RDBMS Wisdom is All Wrong”

A DBA’s point of view of Hibernate

A very nice little rant on Hibernate: http://jeffkemponoracle.com/2011/11/25/3-reasons-to-hate-hibernate While I don't agree 100% (e.g. CRUD/OLTP really is different from OLAP, and Hibernate is a strong CRUD tool), I certainly share most of his feelings.