Operational Database Management Systems
This section contains dedicated contributions from ODBMS.ORG’s Panel of Experts.
Q1. As the tech lead for AdminAPI, you’ve spent years helping shape how MySQL users deploy and manage InnoDB Cluster, ReplicaSet, and ClusterSet environments. From your experience, what are some of the most important...
Q1. The publication of EN 18286 — the AI Quality Management System standard — is a significant milestone for organizations trying to operationalize the requirements of the EU AI Act. For a Chief Risk...
Q1. Aqtra is building a Development Infrastructure Layer that enables organisations, cloud providers, and service partners to create and operate business applications, ERP solutions, portals, and automation services on a common foundation. That is a...
Q1. What failure occurs when AI-assisted decision-making operates without an explicit Feedback layer? The specific failure mode is what I call loop erosion: the system continues to optimize under the assumption that real-world consequences...
“To build a system, you need a team.” Q1. The Bw-tree, which emerged from your Deuteronomy project, won the 2023 ICDE 10-Year Most Influential Paper Award — a recognition that its ideas have proven...
Q1. In 2001, you co-authored the original Semantic Web paper with Tim Berners-Lee and Jim Hendler — a vision for web content that would be meaningful to computers and would enable AI agents to act on...
Q1. You spent nearly eight years as a VP Analyst at Gartner covering data and analytics — advising hundreds of enterprises on their technology strategies from the outside. You are now on the inside, in...
Q1. The core architectural decision in this system is to evaluate all fraud rules atomically within a single transaction using VoltDB’s stored procedures rather than checking rules sequentially across separate queries or services. Can you...
Q1. You have been working across Asia for nearly 20 years, helping healthcare systems in more than 30 countries connect fragmented data into something coherent and usable. Indonesia’s healthcare transformation has been described as...
Q1. Your two UC Berkeley SCET articles — “A Nightmare on LLM Street”(*) and “Would You Like to Play a Game?” (**)— draw a sharp distinction between two fundamentally different AI threat classes: the rational,...