Ingres Project Initiation

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

Michael Stonebraker co-founded the Ingres project, a groundbreaking relational database system that significantly influenced subsequent RDBMS development.

Significance

Provided the foundational experience and intellectual context from which Stonebraker would later conceive POSTGRES, addressing the limitations he observed in Ingres and other relational systems.

Key facts

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