Ingres Project Founded
Michael Stonebraker leads the Ingres project, a foundational relational database research project, which directly precedes and influences POSTGRES.
Significance
Ingres provided the intellectual and technical springboard for Stonebraker's later work, demonstrating the power of relational databases but also revealing their limitations for next-generation applications.
Key facts
- Date
- 1977-01-01
- Type
- invention
- Location
- University of California, Berkeley