Ingres Project Begins

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

Michael Stonebraker co-founded the Ingres project, a foundational relational database research project that preceded POSTGRES and provided valuable lessons.

Significance

Established Stonebraker's reputation in database research and exposed him to the limitations of purely relational models, planting the seeds for POSTGRES.

Key facts

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