Data Management Systems

Data Management Systems groups the computing pioneers in this atlas whose central, explicitly stated contribution concerns the design, theory, or implementation of systems that store, organize, query, and process structured data. Members range from the inventor of the relational model and the designers of the original SQL language, through the builders of the first commercial relational database management systems, distributed and parallel database architectures, semi-structured and stream data management, and the query optimization and transaction processing techniques that underlie modern database engines. It is the largest single specialty among this atlas Information Systems pioneers, reflecting how much of the field grew directly out of database research.