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How Charles Bachman invented the DBMS, a foundation of our digital world

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 59, Issue 7

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2935880

Published: 24 June 2016 Publication History

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His 1963 Integrated Data Store set the template for all subsequent database management systems.

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Communications of the ACM Volume 59, Issue 7

July 2016

118 pages

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DOI:10.1145/2963119

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