Future of Databases

Brian Aker is the Director of Technology for MySQL. At MySQL he helps set direction for technology and looks for opportunies to harness and shape the MySQL database for efforts in Web, OEM, and Telephony. In his copious amounts of free time he works on Apache and Perl modules, and hacks on the Asterisk Telephony System (hence never has a working home phone number). In the past, he has been involved with projects for the Army Engineer Corps, The Virtual Hospital, Splunk, and Slashdot. He lives in Seattle with his dog Rosalynd.

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David Campbell is a Microsoft Technical Fellow working in Microsoft Corp.’s Server and Tools Business. Campbell joined Microsoft in 1994 from Digital Equipment Corp. as Microsoft began its push to become a credible enterprise software vendor. His early work at Microsoft included creating an OLE DB interface over the existing SQL Server storage engine, which helped to bootstrap SQL Server’s present-generation query processor. He also worked closely with Mohsen Agsen, another Microsoft Technical Fellow, and the Microsoft Transaction Server team to add distributed transaction support to SQL Server 6.5.

Microsoft made a bold move to re-architect SQL Server for the SQL Server 7.0 release. As a key technical member of the storage engine team, Campbell implemented the SQL Server lock manager and other critical concurrency control mechanisms. He also implemented row-level locking in SQL Server 7.0, one of the hallmark features of the release.

Through the SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 releases, Campbell served in a variety of roles including product-level architect and general manager of product development. After the SQL Server 2005 release, he led a small team in redesigning SQL Server product development methodology. The new process, used to produce SQL Server 2008, resulted in SQL Server 2008 having the highest initial quality levels of any SQL Server release to date.

As of August 2010, Campbell is serving as general manager of Microsoft’s Data and Modeling Group, which oversees Microsoft’s data modeling and data access strategies.

Campbell holds a number of patents in the data management, schema and software quality realms. He is also a frequent speaker at industry and research conferences on a variety of data management and software development topics. His current product development interests include cloud-scale computing, realizing value from ambient data, and multidimensional, context-rich computing experiences.

Campbell lives in Washington with his wife, Marcia. They have two college-age sons. In his free time, he enjoys traveling with his wife to find new locations for landscape and nature photography.

Matt Domo is the General Manager for Amazon SimpleDB at Amazon Web Services where he sets the business and technical product strategy for Amazon SimpleDB. Matt also helps drive product and technical alignment with the other the utility computing components of the Amazon Web Services platform.

Matt joined Amazon in 2005 as Director of Enterprise Commerce Services where he lead the engineering efforts for Enterprise multi-channel technology solutions. Prior to Amazon, Matt worked at Microsoft Corporation in senior engineering positions on the SQL Server, bCentral, and Speech Server product development teams.

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Alistair is a principal at analyst firm Bitcurrent, and a frequent contributor to the GigaOm family of sites. Prior to Bitcurrent, Alistair co-founded Coradiant, a leader in online user monitoring, as well as research firm Networkshop. He has held product management positions with 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology.

Alistair has coordinated and spoken at a wide range of industry events, including Interop, Structure, Web2Expo and Unconference. He is the author of numerous articles on Internet performance and security, and co-author of Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Applications from Prentice-Hall.

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