System R

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System R was an experimental relational database management system developed at IBM in the 1970s that pioneered SQL and proved the practicality of the relational model.

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instanceOf experimental software system
relational database management system
basedOn relational model
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
describedIn "System R: Relational Approach to Database Management"
developer IBM
IBM San Jose Research Laboratory
developmentPeriod 1970s
fieldOfUse data management research
database management
fullName System Relational
genre prototype DBMS
implementedFeature SQL
surface form: SQL query language

cost-based query optimizer
embedded SQL
locking for concurrency control
system catalog
transactions
views
inception 1974
influenced IBM DB2
IBM SQL/DS
SQL Server
surface form: Microsoft SQL Server

Oracle Database
PostgreSQL
Sybase
surface form: Sybase SQL Server

relational database theory and practice
inspiredBy Edgar F. Codd
surface form: Edgar F. Codd's relational model
keyPerson Donald D. Chamberlin
Frank King
Jim Gray
Morton Astrahan
Patricia Selinger
Raymond F. Boyce NERFINISHED
locationOfDevelopment San Jose
surface form: San Jose, California
mainSubject relational database
SQL
surface form: structured query language
notableFor influencing commercial relational database systems
pioneering SQL
proving practicality of the relational model
operatingSystem IBM System/370
MVS
VM/370
programmingLanguage PL/I
publicationVenue ACM Transactions on Database Systems
researchProjectOf IBM
surface form: IBM Research
status discontinued
subsystem RDS
RSS
testDeployment Prisma project at Pratt & Whitney
various internal IBM applications

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