UC Berkeley Database Research

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In most of what follows, italics indicate an electronic mail address. Unless otherwise indicated it is at CS.Berkeley.EDU.

The database management systems research group is led by Prof. Michael Stonebraker (mike). Associated researchers include:

The following Berkeley faculty perform research in related areas. Some of their work is collaborative with our group or builds on work we do. The following researchers have moved on to greener pastures.

Status of previous projects

INGRES
The university INGRES project, one of the pioneering relational database management systems, was discontinued in 1985. INGRES was commercialized by Relational Technology, Inc. (now Ingres Corp., a division of The ASK Group, now part of Computer Associates, Inc.).
POSTGRES
The follow-on POSTGRES project, which demonstrated the practicality of extended-relational or ``object-relational'' technology, was discontinued in 1994. POSTGRES was commercialized by Illustra Information Technologies, Inc. (formerly Montage Software, Inc.)
Although the source code for both projects is still available from this FTP site, neither system is maintained by people at Berkeley.

I have created a small archive of old papers. The archive is not very complete; it's just what I could find lying around in PostScript form.


Current Research Directions


Administrative Staff

Claire Mosher (claire) is Sequoia 2000 Project Manager. Michelle Mattera (michelle) and Elisa Kwon (elisa) assist her with S2K matters and administration of POSTGRES and Plateau group grants.

About the Turtles...

The turtle was adopted as a mascot by the INGRES group in the '70s because ``it's slow but it gets there.'' It was retained as the POSTGRES mascot for sentimental reasons. This turtle (the one on the home page) was designed as part of the t-shirt commemorating POSTGRES 4.0. If you are really bored and want to see more turtle logos, click here and here.


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Paul M. Aoki // graduate student // aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU