Operational Database Management Systems
“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,...
Q1. Scality ADI introduces the concept of “autonomous operations” through Scality Guardian, but with a deliberate human-in-the-loop principle where agents surface recommendations and humans approve every decision. That is a meaningful architectural and philosophical choice...
The 2026 InterSystems Impact Award winners were announced at this year’s InterSystems READY global summit conference, chosen from nominees by a panel of external judges—scholars and participants in business and technological innovation—from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
The challenge in enterprise AI is not whether models are accurate, it is whether organizations can trust AI-driven outcomes enough to take action at scale.The discussion would focus on a key gap in real-world...
Q1. Real-time systems have traditionally relied on in-memory databases to guarantee deterministic performance, while persistence introduces latency unpredictability. How did you architect eXtremeDB/rt 2.0 to bridge this gap? What were the key technical challenges...