Starburst is born

Abstract

Starburst is an extensible relational database system prototype developed at IBM's Almaden Research Center. The goal throughout its development has been to build a complete relational database system kernel, engineered throughout with the infrastructure for generic extensions, rather than specific extensions for a single application area not previously supportable by relational technology. Currently, Starburst consists of over 100,000 lines of C source code, and executes an extended form of the SQL Data Definition Language and the SQL SELECT and INSERT commands, including joins on any number of tables. We demonstrate it on IBM's first RISC-technology workstation, the RT/PC, under the AIX operating system.