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