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Guide: we refer to the ranking list of Motian wheel community database and take an inventory of the top ten figures in the field of foreign databases. Look back on the history of the database with us.

Today, the importance of database technology is self-evident. Referring to the list of Motian wheel community databases, we have taken an inventory of ten leading figures in the field of foreign databases, including Larry Ellison, who has nothing to be the richest man in Silicon Valley, Michael "Monty" Widenius, Bradley Joseph Fitzpatrick, and Bob Miner, who have shown their talents since childhood.

Because of the limited space, there are many database predecessors have not mentioned, if you also have respect for foreign database bosses, welcome to leave a message at the bottom of this article to supplement, look back on the database history with us!

Larry Ellison, founder and CEO-- of Oracle

From nothing to the richest man in Silicon Valley

Larry Ellison is the founder and CEO of Oracle, the world's largest database software company. But Ellison achieved nothing until he was 32. He went to three universities, didn't get a degree and diploma, changed more than a dozen companies, and finally, his wife left because of his incompetence.

At the age of 32, he had nothing and became the richest man in Silicon Valley, and only a few people knew how long he had struggled during this period. In June 1977, Ellison and his three teamed up to set up a software development and research company with a partnership of $2000. At that time, most people thought that relational databases would have no commercial value because they were too slow to handle large-scale data or a large number of users to access data, but Ellison thought this was their opportunity: they decided to develop a general commercial database system-Oracle. No one would have thought that Oracle's sales had doubled every year for 12 consecutive years, making it the second largest software company in the world and one of the best and most profitable companies in the media.

Larry Ellison ranked seventh on the 2019 Forbes list of the world's billionaires with a fortune of $62.5 billion.

Michael "Monty" Widenius, the founder of MYSQL

An innate talent for programming

Monty is a programming genius. While others went to the party, Monty stayed at home to program. He figured out the computer from the inside out. He pushed BASIC to the limit. "the school doesn't understand that programming is not something like language or history," Monty said. "it can't be learned. So school is not enough. Top-notch hackers are one in a million. They devote all the time they can, 10 hours, 16 hours, every day, year after year. Most people don't want to do such a thing. Most people would rather have a good life." In Monty's eyes, good code is the kind that is written once and never needs to be touched again. It is optimized from a performance point of view, and you can constantly enhance it, but you never need to rewrite it.

At the age of 19, he dropped out of Helsinki University of Technology and started working full-time because there was nothing left to teach him. After writing all but one library alone, at the age of 33, he released MySQL, which later became the most popular open source database in the world. At the age of 55, he defied discrimination against the elderly and was still the best programmer in his company.

Eliot Horowitz, founder of MongoDB for 12 years

The strength of the team made him.

Eliot Horowitz is the chief technology officer and co-founder of MongoDB. He started writing the core code for MongoDB in 2007 and subsequently built engineering and product teams. Today, Eliot is still in charge of these teams and continues to innovate in MongoDB's drive technology. In MongoDB, Eliot co-founded a groundbreaking online retail ShopWiki, a search engine. He built his own technical team and presided over its independent sales in 2010. Before that, Eliot was a software developer at DoubleClick.

Bruce Momjian, founder of PostgreSQL Community

History student to senior database designer

Bruce Momjian is the founder of the Postgres community and a senior database designer at EnterpriseDB. He is the author of the book PostgreSQL: Introduction and Concepts, and is involved in planning and developing programs for the function, performance, stability and high availability of several groups of Postgres series databases.

Momjian majored in history in college and taught math and computer science to high school students for five years after graduation. For the next 12 years, he was a custom software developer. He is not a computer programmer, but his strong interest in database work gives him a practical desire to solve the problems he sees. So he spent a lot of time learning more about open source methods and how databases work.

Momjian plays an important role in guiding the PostreSQL community, which is considered to be the largest independent open source development community in the world. He was not the inventor of open source database, but when it was close to being abandoned 18 years ago, he played a leading role in developing projects.

The father of Redis-- Salvatore Sanfilippo

Sideline projects can help you achieve larger and more important projects.

Redis is a newcomer to NoSQL that has recently received wide attention from the technology community. Salvatore Sanfilippo, the father of Redis, an Italian programmer, is more accustomed to calling him Antirez.

Salvatore Sanfilippo said: how do I stop the development of a new project and focus on the only project (Redis)? Looking back on the past six years, there are actually countless sideline projects around me, sometimes related to Redis, sometimes not related to Redis at all. It is because of the existence of these sideline projects that when I am physically and mentally exhausted or even extremely bored due to continuous work on my main project, I can do something different right away. After a short break and adjustment, I was able to refocus on the Redis project. And, once again, you can find the right motivation to be happy with Redis projects-in the final analysis, to create more value for others.

Itzik Ben-Gan, Chief Advisor and founder of Solid Quality Mentors

The author of several database books

Itzik Ben-Gan is the chief advisor and founder of Solid Quality Mentors. He has been the Microsoft MVP of SQL Server since 1999. Itzik is engaged in training and consulting work related to T-SQL query, programming and query optimization around the world. He is one of the authors of Inside Microsoft SQL Server: T-SQL Querying and Inside Microsoft SQL Server: T-SQL Programming, and has written many articles for SQL Server Magazine and MSDN, and has spoken at many industry conferences, including Tech Ed, DevWeek, PASS and SQL Server Connections.

Zichira, one of the founders of SAP

His strong fondness for science guided his life.

Tzkira and four former IBM colleagues founded SAP in 1972 with the goal of developing standardized applications for real-time data processing, which at the time ran counter to the direction of the system. The company laid the foundation for ERP software.

Tzkira's strong fondness for science, especially math and computer science, guided him throughout his life. Because of the foundation he laid, it opened the door for many young talents to enter the field of science. Tzkira served on the board of SAP from 1988 to 1998 and as a supervisor of the company's supervisory board from 1998 to 2007.

Although SAP's position in the enterprise resource planning software market was later challenged by companies such as Oracle and Microsoft, the company is still a leader in this field. SAP is currently the largest technology company in Europe, with 2014 revenue of 17.6 billion euros ($18.9 billion) and more than 74000 employees.

Michael Kohler, current CEO of Teradata

A vice president holding a number of leadership positions in a row

Michael Kohler graduated from Delaware University with a bachelor's degree in business administration. Kohler began his career with NCR in 1975 and held a number of leadership positions, making a significant contribution to the rapid growth of the NCR data warehouse business. Before becoming Senior Vice President of Teradata in 2003, Mr. Kohler was Vice President of Teradata's global business operations, building a world-class sales and professional services team.

Before NCR established the Teradata data Warehouse Division in January 2000, Mr. Kohler served as Vice President of NCR Americas Retail and NCR Global Retail Marketing, where he was responsible for bringing enterprise data warehouse technology into the retail market. Many of Teradata's early achievements were made in the retail market. Under his leadership, Teradata has been ranked No. 1 in the world in this field by Gartner for 13 consecutive years.

Bradley Joseph Fitzpatrick, the founder of open source distributed cache system Memcached

A seven-year-old programming genius

On February 5, 1980, Bradley Joseph Fitzpatrick, the founder of the famous open source distributed cache system Memcached, was born in a family of electrical engineers in Iowa. Memcached was originally developed on May 22,2003.Today, it has been widely used in Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Wikipedia, Mixi and other major Internet sites, and has become an important part of large-scale Internet architecture. In addition to Memcached, Brad Fitzpatrick cooperated with colleagues to develop some important technologies, such as distributed file system MogileFS, reverse proxy load balancer and Web server Perlbal, high-performance XMPP server DJabberd, distributed protocol pubsubhubbub and so on.

Bradley Joseph Fitzpatric has shown great talent from an early age. At the age of two, my father built an Apple-compatible computer out of discarded computer components, the first computer that little Brad had ever seen. At the age of five, the father began to teach his son programming, and started at the age of six or seven. Before entering college, Bradley Joseph Fitzpatrick founded the famous blog and social site LiveJournal, which was later sold to blog operator Six Part (developer of Movable Type blog software). It now belongs to a Russian company with nearly 30 million users and Alexa ranking around 70.

Bob Miner, the Cross-era Genius of completing RDBMS

The senior DBA who leads the whole era.

Born in Bob Miner, Assyria, Cicero, Bob Miner graduated from the Department of Mathematics (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) at the University of Illinois and took over CIA's projects during his employment with a company called Ampex, where he met Larry Ellsion and Ed Oates.

One day after the three important people met, Ed Oates lent a paper on RDBMS by Dr. E.F. Codee, published in the journal IBM, to Bob and Larry, and they agreed that it was very feasible to use RDBMS to start a business. Since then, the trio found another partner, Bruce Scott, and started their first business together-SDL. Within a year of starting a business, Bob successfully implemented RDBMS in assembly language (Assembly Language). Since then, version 2 and version 3 updates are almost all written by Bob alone. Until 1992, Oracle version 7 was the leader of the technical team. But it is a pity that in 1994, Bob died of lung cancer.

Oracle's original technology, rollback segment, first appeared in version 6 of Oracle in 1988, and this technology has been in use in today's version. It can be said that Bob left an important legacy for Oracle DBMS.

In 2011, at a symposium about the success of Oracle, Ed Oates talked about his old friend Bob Miner. With regard to the success of Oracle, Ed Oates summed up as the action force of Larry, the technical core of Bob Miner and its own management ability. Through its excellent technology, Bob Miner has led the whole era forward.

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