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Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) plenary session : the early years

This session briefly examined the early database management systems (DBMS) software which preceded the development of relational database management systems (RDBMS) which are the focus of this meeting. The early effort by Charles Bachman in the development of the Integrated Data Store (IDS) is mentioned as well as other early dbms products, including IBM's IMS, Cullinane's IDMS, Cincom's TOTAL, MRI's System 2000, CA's Datacom/DB and Software AG's ADABAS. After a discussion of the pioneering efforts of E.F. Codd at IBM Research, significant relational packages are examined by individuals involved in their development and marketing, including: Ingres, Oracle, Sybase, Informix and IBM products such as System R, SQL/DS and DB2. Further discussion will be found in subsequent sessions.

Item Details

Date
2007-06-12 (Made)
Type
Document
Catalogue number
102702562
Organization
Computer History Museum
People
Sharon Codd (Participant)
Chris J. Date (Participant)
Burt Grad (Moderator)
Thomas Haigh (Historian)
Douglas Jerger (Participant)
Luanne Johnson (Co-Chair)
Marilyn Bohl (Participant)
Mark Hoffman (Participant)
Robert MacDonald (Participant)
Roger Sippl (Participant)
Greg Batti (Participant)
Jan Phillips (Participant)
Martin Goetz (Editor)
Paul Butterworth (Participant)
Don Haderle (Participant)
Roy Harrington (Participant)
Jerry Held (Participant)
Ken Jacobs (Participant)
Bruce Lindsay (Participant)
Jim Strickland (Participant)
Moshe Zloof (Participant)
Mike Humphries (Participant)
Stu Schuster (Participant)
Michael W. Blasgen (Participant)
Donald Chamberlin (Participant)
Peter G. Capek (Historian)
Category
Transcript
Credit line
Software Industry Special Interest Group
Extent
36 p.
Place of publication
USA/CA/Mountain View
Language
English
Acquisition number
X4069.2007
Subject
CODASYL, UC Berkeley, Informix, IDS, Sybase, VAX Computers, Honeywell, Ingres Corporation, Oracle, IMS, NOMAD, FOCUS, ADABAS, IDMS
Archive collection
Oral history collection
Archive hierarchy
CHM Oral History Collection