Where, exactly, did you come across these terms?
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In 1974, IBM began developing
System R, a research project to develop a prototype RDBMS. The first system sold as an RDBMS was
Multics Relational Data Store (June 1976).
Oracle was released in 1979 by Relational Software, now
Oracle Corporation Ingres and
IBM BS12 followed. Other examples of an RDBMS include
IBM Db2,
SAP Sybase ASE, and
Informix. In 1984, the first RDBMS for
Macintosh began being developed, code-named Silver Surfer, and was released in 1987 as
4th Dimension and known today as 4D.
The first systems that were relatively faithful implementations of the relational model were from:
- University of Michigan – Micro DBMS (1969)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1971)[9]
- IBM UK Scientific Centre at Peterlee – IS1 (1970–72) and its successor, PRTV (1973–79)
The most common definition of an RDBMS is a product that presents a view of data as a collection of rows and columns, even if it is not based strictly upon
relational theory. By this definition, RDBMS products typically implement some but not all of Codd's 12 rules.
A second school of thought argues that if a database does not implement all of Codd's rules (or the current understanding on the relational model, as expressed by
Christopher J. Date,
Hugh Darwen and others), it is not relational. This view, shared by many theorists and other strict adherents to Codd's principles, would disqualify most DBMSs as not relational. For clarification, they often refer to some RDBMSs as
truly-relational database management systems (TRDBMS), naming others
pseudo-relational database management systems (PRDBMS).
As of 2009, most commercial relational DBMSs employ
SQL as their
query language.
Alternative query languages have been proposed and implemented, notably the pre-1996 implementation of
Ingres QUEL.