Timeline of important events in the field of database
(From 1959–2020)
1959
CODASYL, the Conference/Committee on Data Systems Languages, was a consortium formed to guide the development of a standard programming language
~ 1960
Hierarchical Database Model was developed by IBM
1966
Initial release of IBM Information Management System (IMS)
1969
Charles Bachman developed Network Model
1969
Edgar F. Codd developed relational model
1974
Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce designed SQL (Structured Query Language)
Initial release of System R by IBM. System R was the first implementation of SQL (structured query language).
~1975–1976
Michael Stonebraker and Eugene Wong developed Ingres (INteractive Graphics REtrieval System)
1976
Michael Stonebraker designed QUEL (A relational database query language)
Peter Chen published a paper on Entity–relationship model (or ER model)
1979
Initial release of Oracle database by Oracle
1981
Initial release of SQL/DS by IBM
1984
Robert Epstein, Mark Hoffman, Jane Doughty, and Tom Haggin founded Sybase
Raima Inc. originally released RDM ( Raima Database Server )
1985
Initial release of FileMaker by Claris International Inc.
1986
Initial release of GemStone/S by Gem Talk Systems
1989
Initial release of Microsoft SQL Server by Microsoft
1990
Initial release of Objectivity/DB by Objectivity, Inc
1990s
Object-oriented database management systems became popular
1991
Initial release of Sybase
1992
Initial release of Microsoft Access by Microsoft
1993
Initial release of IBM DB2 by IBM
1995
MySQL initial release by Oracle corporation.
1996
PostgreSQL, a successor to Ingres was released by University of California, Berkeley
1997
Initial release of InterSystems Caché by InterSystems
2000
Talk on CAP theorem by Eric A. Brewer
Initial release of SQLite by Dwayne Richard Hipp
2003
Initial release of Perst by McObject
2005
Initial release of CouchDB by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer at IBM
2005
Greenplum was created by Greenplum
2007
Neo4j initial release by Neo4j Inc.
2008
Initial release of Cassandra by Facebook
Initial release of Apache HBase
2009
CouchOne Inc. was founded as Relaxed, in Berkeley, California.
MongoDB Inc. (formerly 10gen) released MongoDB as an open source project.
Facebook developed TAO (“The Associations and Objects”).
Initial release of riak by Basho technologies
Initial release of Amazon RDS ( Relational Database Service ) by Amazon Web Services ( AWS ).
Initial release of MariaDB by MariaDB Corporation AB and MariaDB Foundation
Initial release of Redis by Redis Labs
2010
YouTube developed Vitess
Initial release of Membase by NorthScale
NorthScale was renamed Membase.
Initial release of SAP HANA by SAP SE
Initial release of Couchbase server by Couchbase Inc
Initial release of Aerospike by Aerospike
Initial release of OrientDB by OrientDB Ltd
Initial release of FlockDB
Initial release of Microsoft Azure SQL Database by Microsoft Azure
2011
Couchbase, Inc. was created through the merger of Membase and CouchOne
2011
Initial release of ArangoDB by ArangoDB GmbH
Edgestore was developed by Dropbox Inc.
2012
Initial release of Wakanda by Wakanda SAS
Initial release of DynamoDB by Amazon
2013
Initial release of FoundationDB by Apple Inc.
2014
Initial release of Realm
Initial release of Amazon Aurora by Amazon Web Services ( AWS )
2015
Initial release of CockroachDB by Cockroach Labs
Initial release of ScyllaDB by ScyllaDB inc
2016
Initial release of YugaByteDB by Yugabyte, Inc.
General Availability of CloudSQL for MySQL by Google Cloud Platform ( GCP)
2017
Initial release of JanusGraph
Initial Beta release of Cloud Spanner API by Google Cloud Platform ( GCP )
Initial release of TimescaleDB by Timescale
Initial release of TiDB by PingCAP Inc.
2018
Initial release of Amazon Neptune
2020
First stable release of ZODB by Zope Foundation
2020
Initial release of ObjectDB
