Dossier
Ingres
Coverage of Ingres in the Nexus archive.
- The database that refused to die: How Postgres survived its own creators
PostgreSQL, originally developed by Michael Stonebraker as a successor to Ingres, was abandoned in the 1990s but survived due to a dedicated open-source community. The volunteer team expanded its capabilities with standard SQL while maintaining its extensible architecture, leading to its current role as a foundation for modern cloud infrastructure.