POSTGRES Project Commencement

Name: POSTGRES Project Commencement
Start: 1986-01-01
Location: University of California, Berkeley

Michael Stonebraker initiates the POSTGRES project with DARPA and NSF funding, aiming to build an object-relational database for next-generation applications.

Significance

Marked the formal beginning of the lineage that would become PostgreSQL, seeking to overcome the limitations of purely relational models with innovative extensibility.

Key facts

Date: 1986-01-01
Type: invention
Location: University of California, Berkeley