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Fifty Years of Databases

by Thomas Haigh on Dec 11, 2012 | Categories: Databases, History

Fifty years ago a small team working to automate the business processes of the General Electric Low Voltage Switch Gear Department in Philadelphia built the first functioning prototype of a database management system. The Integrated Data Store was designed by Charles W. Bachman, who later won the…