Ingres Project Begins
Michael Stonebraker begins the Ingres project, a pioneering relational database system that greatly influenced future database design and later became a commercial product.
Significance
Ingres laid the foundational experience and intellectual groundwork for Stonebraker's subsequent POSTGRES project, identifying the limitations he sought to overcome.
Key facts
- Date
- 1973-01-01
- Type
- invention
- Location
- University of California, Berkeley