Citus Data Donates 1% of Equity to PostgreSQL Organizations

Re:Citus Data Donates 1% of Equity to PostgreSQL Organizations by Bucephalus355 on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @05:02PM (#18296354)

Fun fact: Ingres was the brainchild of the brilliant Professor Michael Stonebraker. After the company went under after being beaten by Oracle in the RDBMS marketplace, he open-sourced the DB as a shot against Larry Ellison. Hence it’s name, “Post-Ingres”, or Postgres.

Also, I believe his version of SQL was called QUEL, and we would have been using that term today had Ingres won out.

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Re:Citus Data Donates 1% of Equity to PostgreSQL Organizations by singlow on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @06:09PM (#18296905)

Your history got me interested so I looked it up on Wikipedia. Based on the info there, POSTGRES or Post-Ingres was a new project that he started after Ingres, and based on its concepts, but not using the Ingres code. PostgreSQL is based on the POSTGRES code which was licensed BSD from the outset.

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Re:Citus Data Donates 1% of Equity to PostgreSQL Organizations by sitharus on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @08:11PM (#18297581)

There's a timeline on Wikipedia that has all the relationships, it's interesting how related everything is.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/RDBMS_ti...

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Re:Citus Data Donates 1% of Equity to PostgreSQL Organizations by jve on Thursday October 25, 2018 @04:05AM (#18299284)

Woah, looks like PostgreSQL and MS SQL Server has same ancestor and started at the same time :)

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Re:Citus Data Donates 1% of Equity to PostgreSQL Organizations by tomcam on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @05:15PM (#18296477)

I remember Ingres but was too stupid to make the connection when Postgres came out. That is awesome.

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Re:Citus Data Donates 1% of Equity to PostgreSQL Organizations by wu_tang_chris on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @05:18PM (#18296499)

> too stupid

being a little bit hard on yourself there

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Re:Citus Data Donates 1% of Equity to PostgreSQL Organizations by qaq on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @10:07PM (#18298063)

And it looks to be working at current pace of PG development Oracle will have only a shrinking high end segment in 10 years.

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Re:Citus Data Donates 1% of Equity to PostgreSQL Organizations by vmlinuz on Thursday October 25, 2018 @12:39AM (#18298573)

We used Ingres on HP-UX for our database class when I was at university in the late 90's - and now the vast majority of my current colleagues are quite a lot younger than I am, and they don't know why I keep doing double-takes when they're talking about k8s/nginx ingress...

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Re:Citus Data Donates 1% of Equity to PostgreSQL Organizations by dstroot on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @08:32PM (#18297684)

We ran Ingres on a multi-processor Sequent machine back in 1991 or so. I liked it then and I love Postgres now.

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