Jim Starkey

Jim Starkey
Born6 January 1949
Illinois, USA
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Known forMultiversion concurrency control, Falcon
SpouseAnn Harrison Starkey

Jim Starkey (born January 6, 1949, in Illinois) is a database architect responsible for developing InterBase, the first relational database to support multi-versioning,[1] the blob column type, type event alerts, arrays and triggers.[2] Starkey is the founder of several companies, including the web application development and database tool company Netfrastructure and NuoDB.

  1. ^ Babcock, Charles. "MySQL Database to Get Replication Monitoring, Multiversioning Concurrency Features." InformationWeek. Sept. 14, 2007. Accessed Dec. 7, 2012
  2. ^ Niccolai, James. "Update: MySQL buys company, hires noted architect." Computer World. Feb. 27, 2006. Accessed Dec. 7, 2012