History of the Database Industry By ptoole May 9, 1977 Oracle founded May 9, 1979 Teradata founded May 9, 1984 Sybase founded May 9, 1986 Postgres founded May 9, 1986 SQL Server branched May 9, 1987 Teradata IPO May 9, 1991 Teradata bought for $520M May 9, 1994 MySQL founded May 9, 1996 SybaseIQ founded May 9, 2000 1010 Data Founded May 9, 2000 InfiniDB Founded May 9, 2000 Netezza founded May 9, 2003 DatAllegro founded May 9, 2003 Greenplum founded May 9, 2004 MonetDB founded May 9, 2005 Aster Data Founded May 9, 2005 CouchDB founded May 9, 2005 Dataupia founded May 9, 2005 Paraccel founded May 9, 2005 Vertica founded May 9, 2006 Exasol founded May 9, 2006 Clustrix founded May 9, 2007 Netezza IPOs May 9, 2007 Teradata spun off NCR May 9, 2008 Cassandra founded May 9, 2008 DataAllegro acquired for $275M May 9, 2008 ExaData created May 9, 2008 VoltDB founded May 9, 2008 MySQL acquired for $1B May 9, 2009 CitrusLeaf founded May 9, 2010 Greenplum acquired for ~$300M May 9, 2010 Netezza acquired for $1.7B May 9, 2010 Sybase acquired for $5.8B May 9, 2011 Aster Data acquired for $275M May 9, 2011 Vertica acquired for $350M