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A Conversation with Margo Seltzer and Mike Olson: The history of Berkeley DB

Published: 18 November 2021 Publication History

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Kirk McKusick sat down with Margo Seltzer and Mike Olson to discuss the history of Berkeley DB, for which they won the ACM Software System Award in 2021. Kirk McKusick has spent his career as a BSD and FreeBSD developer. Margo Seltzer has spent her career as a professor of computer science and as an entrepreneur of database software companies. Mike Olson started his career as a software developer and later started and managed several open-source software companies. Berkeley DB is a production-quality, scalable, NoSQL, Open Source platform for embedded transactional data management.

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[1]
Seltzer, M. and Olson, M. (January 1992). LIBTP: Portable, modular transactions for UNIX. https://dsf.berkeley.edu/papers/ERL-M92-02.pdf
[2]
Stonebraker, M., Stettner, H., Lynn, N., Kalash, J., and Guttman, A. 1983. Document processing in a relational database system. (April 1983). https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/357431.357433

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Queue  Volume 19, Issue 5
Deception environments
September-October 2021
132 pages
ISSN:1542-7730
EISSN:1542-7749
DOI:10.1145/3494834
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