> He is best-known for the development of the storage and query execution engines of the C-Store (column-oriented database) prototype, which was commercialized by Vertica and eventually acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2011, for his HadoopDB research on fault tolerant scalable analytical database systems which was commercialized by Hadapt and acquired by Teradata in 2014, and deterministic, scalable, transactional, distributed systems such as Calvin which is currently being commercialized by Fauna.
That is as an impressive of a resume as I have ever seen. Dude spawned 3 successful commercial database offerings.
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[1]: https://fauna.com/blog/distributed-consistency-at-scale-span...