TSIMMIS Project Initial Research

Name: TSIMMIS Project Initial Research
Start: 1994-01-01
Location: Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

The TSIMMIS (The Stanford-IBM Manager of Multiple Information Sources) project began, exploring foundational concepts for integrating heterogeneous data sources using wrappers and mediators.

Significance

Laid the academic and theoretical groundwork for what would become data virtualization, demonstrating a viable architecture for virtual data integration.

Key facts

Date: 1994-01-01
Type: invention
Location: Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA