Michael Ralph Stonebraker (born October 11, 1943) is a computer scientist specializing in database research.Through a series of academic prototypes and commercial startups, Stonebraker's research and products are central to many relational database systems on the market today. He is also the founder of a number of database companies, including Ingres, Illustra, Cohera, StreamBase Systems, Vertica, VoltDB, Tamr and Paradigm4. He was previously the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of Informix. 

He is also an editor for the book Readings in Database Systems.Michael Stonebraker was a Professor of Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley, for twenty-nine years, where he developed the Ingres and Postgres relational database systems. He is currently an adjunct professor at MIT, where he has been involved in the development of the Aurora,C-Store, H-Store, Morpheus, and SciDB systems.He received Turing Award in 2014.