Operational Database Management Systems
This section contains dedicated contributions from ODBMS.ORG’s Panel of Experts.
Q1. You’ve spent over 15 years working across AI and multilingual technology, often joining organizations before the direction was fully clear. In your experience, what is the most common mistake teams make when they...
Q1. Marcelo, congratulations on being named MySQL Rockstar 2025! You’ve spent nearly 20 years working with MySQL — from the LAMP stack era when InnoDB was “the new kid” to today’s cloud-native, multi-terabyte production environments....
Q1. Enterprise ERP modernization has been on the agenda for decades, yet many organizations still struggle with legacy complexity. What are the most common reasons large enterprises find themselves stuck — and what are...
Q1: RaimaDB Cert is being marketed as “the only certified embedded database for functional safety.” What makes certification so significant in the database industry, and why has it taken this long for an embedded...
Q1. Your book argues that general intelligence will emerge from orchestrated cooperation among specialized LLM agents rather than from ever-larger monolithic models. What led you to this thesis, and can you explain why collaborative...
Q1. Reva, you’ve spent two decades evaluating automated technologies in high-stakes settings — from your work as a forensic scientist at the U.S. Secret Service to leading NIST’s AI risk management efforts. How has your...
Q1. Umesh, congratulations on being named MySQL Rockstar 2025! Over the past decade, you’ve verified and handled over 14,000 public bug reports, acting as a crucial bridge between the MySQL community and Oracle’s development team....
Q1. Dr. Sriram, you have been involved with object-oriented systems (OOS) for more than four decades. Can you give us a brief history of your involvement with object-oriented systems, in particular object-oriented database management...
By David Rolfe Some of you will be aware of the concept of a “Black Swan Event”. The term was coined by Nicholas Taleb, and refers to a rare event with significant consequences. Something so...
“At the core should be the 3-2-1 backup rule, adapted for today’s threat environment: a primary on-prem copy for rapid restoration, a secondary copy stored offsite, often in the cloud, for geographic resilience, and...