Initial Development at DEC

Jim Starkey and his team at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) began developing a new relational database management system, internally called 'Jovian,' which later became InterBase. This project aimed to solve concurrency issues with an innovative multi-generational architecture.

Significance

This marked the birth of InterBase and its core, revolutionary MVCC technology, laying the groundwork for a database that would offer high performance and low administrative overhead.