Richard Tibbetts is chief architect at Streambase. He brings an extensive and experienced engineering background to StreamBase Systems. Throughout his career, Tibbetts has concentrated on the design and development of database technologies, while also offering specialization in program analysis and distributed computing.

Tibbetts created the Linear Road Benchmark, the database management industry’s guide for comparing the performance of real-time streaming databases with alternative systems, like relational databases. In addition, he has been heavily involved with a number of academic database projects, including Aurora at Brown University, and Medusa at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2003, the research from these two projects later led to the founding and commercialization of StreamBase’s Stream Processing Engine.

As a co-founder and Chief Architect at StreamBase, Tibbetts is directly involved in architecting the foundation for the next-generation textual language based on Structured Query Language (SQL). The objective of this work is to apply the benefits of SQL for stored data to real-time, transitory data. Tibbetts is also charged with global responsibilities in furthering new StreamBase capabilities through platform and technical innovation.

Tibbetts earned both his bachelor of science in computer science and engineering and his master’s of engineering degree at MIT. He completed his graduate research under the direction of Dr. Mike Stonebraker.