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