Ingres Project Initiated

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

Michael Stonebraker begins the Ingres project, a pioneering relational database system, laying early groundwork for his later work on POSTGRES.

Significance

Established Stonebraker's early expertise in database systems and informed the design principles for POSTGRES by highlighting both the strengths and limitations of the relational model.

Key facts

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