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Summary: dated but interesting
Comment: This book is essentially a collection of research papers from the 1970s and early 1980s, each focusing on an aspect of the pioneering University INGRES database project at the University of California at Berkeley. Although it doesn't have a huge amount to offer practitioners these days, the book has three main points of value to academics and the historically-minded. First, the "glue" connected the papers is the usual opinionated Stonebraker commentary. This has reasonable entertainment value. Second, Rowe and Stonebraker tell the technical story of their 1980 startup, Relational Technology. Third, some of the research papers have become practically impossible to find as university libraries continue to throw out older and less-circulated conference proceedings.
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