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Fun fact: Ingres was the brainchild of the brilliant Professor Michael Stonebraker. After the company went under after being beaten by Oracle in the RDBMS marke
by Bucephalus355 8y ago
Fun fact: Ingres was the brainchild of the brilliant Professor Michael Stonebraker. After the company went under after being beaten by Oracle in the RDBMS marketplace, he open-sourced the DB as a shot against Larry Ellison. Hence it’s name, “Post-Ingres”, or Postgres.
Also, I believe his version of SQL was called QUEL, and we would have been using that term today had Ingres won out.
- tomcam 8y agoI remember Ingres but was too stupid to make the connection when Postgres came out. That is awesome.
- wu_tang_chris 8y ago> too stupid being a little bit hard on yourself there
- vmlinuz 8y agoWe used Ingres on HP-UX for our database class when I was at university in the late 90's - and now the vast majority of my current colleagues are quite a lot younger than I am, and they don't know why I keep doing double-takes when they're talking about k8s/nginx ingress...
- singlow 8y agoYour history got me interested so I looked it up on Wikipedia. Based on the info there, POSTGRES or Post-Ingres was a new project that he started after Ingres, and based on its concepts, but not using the Ingres code. PostgreSQL is based on the POSTGRES code which was licensed BSD from the outset.
- sitharus 8y agoThere's a timeline on Wikipedia that has all the relationships, it's interesting how related everything is. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/RDBMS_timeline.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/RDBMS_ti...
- jve 8y agoWoah, looks like PostgreSQL and MS SQL Server has same ancestor and started at the same time :)
- dstroot 8y agoWe ran Ingres on a multi-processor Sequent machine back in 1991 or so. I liked it then and I love Postgres now.
- qaq 8y agoAnd it looks to be working at current pace of PG development Oracle will have only a shrinking high end segment in 10 years.