database An
active DBMS developed at the
University of California at Berkeley by a team led by Michael Stonebraker (1986-1994). Postgres was later taken by Illustra and developed into a commercial product, which in turn was bought by
Informix and integrated into their product, Universal Server.
PostgreSQL is a further development of the original POSTGRES code as a
free software alternative to commercial
DBMS vendor offerings.
[Details? Reference? Relationship to
Ingres?]
(1999-07-04)