For those who want to know about the various projects he has worked on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingres_%28database%29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illustra

http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/analysis/1943302/disparate-databas...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StreamBase_Systems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertica

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VoltDB

http://www.paradigm4.com/

http://cs.brown.edu/research/aurora/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-Store

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-Store

http://publications.csail.mit.edu/abstracts/abstracts07/ston...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciDB