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Interview with Jim Grey

From slashdot, this is a very interesting article with Jim Grey: Winner of the ACM Turing award; pioneer of relational and transaction-based systems; Tandem; and now research into the future of storage (log structured file systems, etc.).

A Conversation with Jim Gray

To me, the most interesting things in this interview are:

  • His belief that Open Source databases will soon create a real threat to databases like Oracle, Sybase, DB2, etc.
  • The best way he’s found to move data around now that tapes and disks cost the same per gigabyte is to actually ship an entire computer with an operating system and lots of disks installed around
  • Soon, things like IDE and SCSI will dissapear, and all storage will use IP and SOAP for communication. I think he’s right!
  • Pretty soon, we will have more storage avaliable than we can possibly use, what do we use it for?

There’s also some good history of the early days of relational databases, tandem, lots of good stuff

Posted by Mike on Wednesday, September 17th, 2003 at 10:56 pm.

5 Responses to “Interview with Jim Grey”

“Pretty soon, we will have more storage avaliable than we can possibly use, what do we use it for? ”
– to store all of the particles in the universe.

Left by IEFBR14 on September 18th, 2003

I don’t think a storage system will ever exist that can keep track of all the dulinos ;-)

Left by Mike Akers on September 19th, 2003

I am not proposing to keep track of dulinos. Instead, I am suggesting that we simply store all of the particles in the universe on hard drives.

The reality of the situation is that it is impossible to store all particles in the universe on a hard drive because you need a few to build the drive itself.

So, let me clarify my design. Some particles can be used to be build the drive case. The particles to store on the drive will comprise the drive itself.

Do you know that this means that I designed a black hole and reduce the universe back to its pre-big bang self ? This means that I am the Creator.

Left by IEFBR14 on October 9th, 2003

I see….

Left by Mike on October 9th, 2003

Can someone say “GOD COMPLEX”

Left by NC 2.0 on September 12th, 2006

Something to say?