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the enterprise open source relational database
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This page will provide you with both the latest news on the Ingres RDBMS as well as everything you need to learn about Ingres and become proficient in using it.
Overview
Self-Portrait at the Age of 24, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1804, Musée Condé
Ingres (pronounced /iŋ-grεs'/) is a commercially supported, open-source relational database management system. Ingres was first created as a research project at the University of California, Berkeley starting in the early 1970s and ending in the early 1980s. Two scientists at Berkeley, Michael Stonebraker and Eugene Wong, became interested in the concept after reading Codd's System R papers from IBM, and decided to start a relational database research project of their own. They had already raised money for researching a geographic database system for Berkeley's economics group, which they called Ingres, for INteractive Graphics REtrieval System. The original code, like that from other projects at Berkeley, was available at minimal cost under a version of the BSD license. Since the mid-1980s, Ingres had spawned a number of commercial database applications, including Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, NonStop SQL and a number of others. Postgres (Post Ingres), a project which started in the mid-1980s, later evolved into PostgreSQL. In 2005, Ingres Corporation was formed to make Ingres available as an Open Source product.
Articles
Articles dealing with the Ingres Technologies can be found at Articles
Examples
Useful Example Code or Scripts can be found at Code Samples
Webinars/Training
Here are links to webinars that have been previously given. You can download the presentations and webinar replays. Note that replaying any of the webinars requires that you first install the WebEx ARF media player. Of course, you need Adobe Acrobat Reader for PDF files and InfoZip is a nice open source utility for handling ZIP files.
- Ingres 2006 Release 3 and Beyond (VIP Webinar). This webinar describes the latest enhancements to the Ingres database and provides an overview of features planned for future releases . You can download the [1] and and replay the Ingres 2006 Release 3 and Beyond
