INGRES Project Initiated

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

Michael Stonebraker and Eugene Wong started the INGRES (INteractive GRaphics REtrieval System) project, a pioneering relational database system that greatly influenced commercial products.

Significance

INGRES laid the academic groundwork and provided the intellectual springboard for Stonebraker's later work on POSTGRES, identifying both the strengths and weaknesses of the relational model.

Key facts

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