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C-Store and the Rebirth of the Column-Oriented Database
C-Store redesigned the relational database around columns, compression, projections, and late materialization, helping trigger the modern revival of column-oriented analytical systems.
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C-Store redesigned the relational database around columns, compression, projections, and late materialization, helping trigger the modern revival of column-oriented analytical systems.
Berkeley's INGRES project helped prove that relational databases could be built outside IBM, while its QUEL language showed that SQL was not the only plausible declarative interface for the relational model.
Michael Stonebraker's POSTGRES project explored extensible object-relational database ideas at Berkeley, then evolved through Postgres95 into the open-source PostgreSQL system.