System R is a database system built as a research project at IBM San
Jose Research (now IBM
Almaden Research Center) in the 1970's. System R introduced the SQL
language and also demonstrated that a relational system could provide
good transaction processing performance.
To learn more about System R, you can read:
- The 1995 SQL Reunion:
People, Projects, and Politics
- an informal but first-hand account of the birth of SQL, the history of System R, and the origins of a number of other relational
systems inside and outside IBM.
Also available in Russian at CIT Forum .
- a bibliography of all System R papers, compiled by Don Chamberlin (see also System R page of ACM SIGMOD Anthology)
- a directory of people who worked on System R and related systems
- Other relational systems
- summaries of other early relational database systems
- Reverse citations
- Other web sites that link into this one
Paul McJones's home page
Internet address: paul at mcjones dot org