NHibernate (2005)
ADO.NET (2002)
Pervasive PSQL (1998)
XML database (1998)
XML (1998)
Microsoft Data Access Components (1996)
PostgreSQL (1996)
ADO (October 1996)
Visual FoxPro (1995)
MySQL (May 23, 1995)
VBA (1993)
Microsoft SQL Server for Windows (1993)
Borland's Paradox (1992)
Access version 1.0 was released (November 1992)
Microsoft Jet Database Engine (1992)
ODBC (September 1992)
Call Level Interface (1990)
MS-Works for Windows (1990)
POSTGRES (June 1989)
Microsoft SQL Server (1989)
data warehousing (late 1980s)
Sybase SQL Server (1987)
InterBase (1986)
ANSI SQL (1986)
FoxBASE (1984)
Firebird (1984)
Btrieve (February 1982)
PC-File (1982)
Nutshell (1982)
dBase (1980)
Relational Software, Inc. introduced Oracle V2 (1979) for VAX computers as the first commercially available implementation of SQL
IBM System R (late 1970s)
SQL (late 1970s)
object-oriented database management systems
Ingres (1974)
A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks, by Dr. Edgar F. Codd, was published (June 1970) in the Association for
Computing Machinery journal. Codd's model became widely accepted as the definitive model for Relational database management system
IMS (1968)
the earliest known use of the term 'data bases' (November 1963) was when the System Development Corporation
sponsored a symposium under the title Development and Management of a Computer-centered Data Base
Conference on Data Systems Languages (1959)