How Charles Bachman Invented the DBMS, a Foundation of Our Digital World.

The article discusses the 1963 invention of the Integrated Data Store (IDS) database management system (DBMS) by engineer Charles W. Bachman. Topics include the use of IDS to facilitate random access storage using high-level programming languages, the importance of transaction processing systems for...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 59; no. 7; pp. 25 - 31
Autor principal: Haigh, Thomas
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Jul2016
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Sumario:The article discusses the 1963 invention of the Integrated Data Store (IDS) database management system (DBMS) by engineer Charles W. Bachman. Topics include the use of IDS to facilitate random access storage using high-level programming languages, the importance of transaction processing systems for DBMSs, and the role of IDS is setting up a DBMS standard by the data processing industry standards body CODASYL.