Paper Info
Title
SQL/DS: IBM's First RDBMS
Abstract
In the late 1970s, IBM software labs were aligned with the IBM hardware families. The decisions to commercialize the relational database prototype called System R, which had been developed during the 1970s at the IBM Research facility in San Jose, California, were made based on a hardware family business case. The Endicott Lab, supporting the small- to mid-sized mainframe environments running VM and VSE, had the skills and the competitive pressure to launch the relational database management system (RDBMS) commercialization project in 1979, and delivered SQL/DS two years later. This article traces how SQL/DS, running on VSE and then on VM, became IBM's first commercial relational database in 1982, over a year before the availability of DB2 running on MVS.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/MAHC.2013.28
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
relational databases,hardware family business case,ibm software lab,relational database management systems,ibm software labs,san jose,relational database management system,endicott lab,system r,relational database prototype,rdbms,ibm,commercial relational database,db2,first rdbms,sql/ds,mainframe environments,ibm hardware family,ibm research facility,history of computing,sql,strategic planning,software development,hardware,history
SQL,IBM,Queued Telecommunications Access Method,Relational database,Software engineering,Computer science,IBM mainframe utility programs,CICS,IBM High Availability Cluster Multiprocessing,Relational database management system,Operating system
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
35
2
1058-6180
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hershel Harris100.34
Bert Nicol200.34