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CHAPTER

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Introduction to the Relational
Model

E. F. Codd of the IBM San Jose Research Laboratory proposed the relational model in
the late 1960s.
Codd’s original paper inspired several research projects that were formed in the
mid to late 1970s with the goal of constructing practical relational database systems,
including System R at the IBM San Jose Research Laboratory, Ingres at the University
of California at Berkeley, and Query-by-Example at the IBM T. J. Watson Research
Center. The Oracle database was developed commercially at the same time.
Many relational database products are now commercially available. These include
IBM’s DB2 and Informix, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and Sybase and HANA from
SAP. Popular open-source relational database systems include MySQL and PostgreSQL.
Hive and Spark are widely used systems that support parallel execution of queries
across large numbers of computers.

Bibliographical Notes

Codd’s original paper can be found in ([Codd (1970)]). In that paper, Codd also in-
troduced the original definition of relational algebra. This work led to the prestigious
ACM Turing Award to Codd in 1981 ([Codd (1982)]).
After E. F. Codd introduced the relational model, an expansive theory developed
around the relational model pertaining to schema design and the expressive power of
various relational languages. Several classic texts cover relational database theory, in-
cluding [Maier (1983)] (which is available free, online), and [Abiteboul et al. (1995)].

Bibliography

[Abiteboul et al. (1995)] S. Abiteboul, R. Hull, and V. Vianu, Foundations of Databases, Ad-
dison Wesley (1995).
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[Codd (1970)] E. F. Codd, “A Relational Model for Large Shared Data Banks”, Communi-
cations of the ACM, Volume 13, Number 6 (1970), pages 377–387.
[Codd (1982)] E. F. Codd, “The 1981 ACM Turing Award Lecture: Relational Database: A
Practical Foundation for Productivity”, Communications of the ACM, Volume 25, Number 2
(1982), pages 109–117.
[Maier (1983)] D. Maier, The Theory of Relational Databases, Computer Science Press
(1983).

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