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03 Brief NoSQL history

  • MultiValue databases at TRW in 1965.
  • DBM is released by AT&T in 1979.
  • Lotus Domino released in 1989.
  • Carlo Strozzi used the term NoSQL in 1998 to name his lightweight, opensource relational database that did not expose the standard SQL interface.
  • Graph database Neo4j is started in 2000.
  • Google BigTable is started in 2004. Paper published in 2006.
  • CouchDB is started in 2005.
  • The research paper on Amazon Dynamo is released in 2007.
  • The document database MongoDB is started in 2007 as a part of a open
  • source cloud computing stack and first standalone release in 2009.
  • Facebooks open sources the Cassandra project in 2008.
  • Project Voldemort started in 2008.
  • The term NoSQL was reintroduced in early 2009 as an hashtag.