EECS Colloquium: DBOS: A Database-oriented Operating System

For the last two years, a team of us at MIT, Stanford, CMU, Google and VMware have been building a new operating system stack, based on a high-performance distributed DBMS. In other words, all OS state (files, messages, scheduling information, etc.) is stored in the DBMS (currently VoltDB) and all OS services are written in SQL plus stored procedures. At the present time, we have Version 2 running and have a fair amount of experience with the system.