- Illustra
Illustra was a commercialized version of the
Postgres object-relational database management system (DBMS ) sold by Illustra Information Technologies, a company formed byMichael Stonebraker and Paula Hawthorn. The technology's extensibility model centered on DataBlade modules that defined types and associated index methods, operators, and functions for purposes and data domains that included Web publishing, search and manipulation of text, and management ofgeospatial information.The company was sold to
Informix in 1997. The technology was folded into the Informix 7 OnLine product line, leading eventually to the creation of the unified Informix Universal Server (IUS) product line.External links
* [http://sunsite.uakom.sk/sunworldonline/swol-06-1996/swol-06-cs.html "Informix leaps to objects: Informix Universal Server promises to raise the database technology bar," by Bill Rosenblatt]
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