Ingres Project Begins

Name: Ingres Project Begins
Start: 1973-01-01
Location: University of California, Berkeley

Michael Stonebraker begins the Ingres project, an early relational database management system, which would later influence his design for POSTGRES.

Significance

Established Stonebraker's reputation in database research and highlighted the limitations of relational models for complex data, directly leading to the motivation for POSTGRES.

Key facts

Date: 1973-01-01
Type: invention
Location: University of California, Berkeley