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Oracle Versions
Comparison of release dates and features
Oracle
2004 Oracle10g - Flashback Query, Data Pump, Automatic Storage Management.
2002 Oracle9i Release 2 - Native XML database.
2001 Oracle9i Release 1 - RAC and Advanced Analytic Service (business intelligence), Fine-grained auditing.
2000 Oracle8i Release 2 - Oracle tools integrated in middle tier: 9i Application Server available.
1999 First RDBMS on Linux.
1998 Oracle8i - Java support, SQLJ, XML and Oracle interMedia.
1997 Version 8 - First web database, object-oriented development and multimedia, Binary datatypes, Table Partitioning. Very Large Database (VLDB) features.
1995 Version 7 for 64-bit RDBMS
1994 Version 7 for PC.
1992 Version 7 - for UNIX, distributed transactions, stored procedures, triggers, declarative referential integrity, User-Defined Functions, Cost based optimizer, Varchar2 datatype, ANSI SQL92, Parallel operations including query, load, and index creation.
1989 Version 6.2 - Symmetric cluster access using Oracle Parallel Server.
1988 Version 6 - Oracle Financial Applications built on relational database.
1986 Version 5 - First distributed database, first true client/server database, VAX-cluster support, and distributed queries. Row Level Locking.
1984 Version 4 - First portable toolset; first RDBMS for IBM PC, introduced read consistency, was ported to multiple platforms, first interoperability between PC and server.
1982 Version 3 - First portable database (mainframes, minicomputers, and PC); first RDBMS to support SMP
1980 Version 2 - First commercial SQL database (PDP11/VAX)
1979 Version 1 - Not comercially released.SQL Server
2005: SQL Server 2005 - predicted release date
2003: SQL Server 2000 Enterprise edition 64 bit - Itanium 2 support.
2000: SQL Server 2000 - XML and Data Mining, also improved DTS and data analysis tools.
User-Defined Functions, Indexed Views, INSTEAD OF and AFTER Triggers, Cascading Referential Integrity Constraints, Multiple Instances.
1998: SQL Server 7.0 - Data Transformation Services, OLAP Services and Microsoft Repository. Row Level Locking.
1996: SQL Server 6.5 - distributed data and transactions, OLE-based management framework, ANSI SQL 92
1993: Renamed as SQL Server 4.2 (Windows NT)
1992: SQL Server beta released. Sybase codebase, Database triggers and stored procedures, roll-forward and roll-back transaction recovery, Client support for Macintosh (Microsoft Windows)
