What Is Ingres?

Worries about all the data your organization holds, and do you need to know a systematic way to hold, manage, and use it efficiently? If you're looking for a database that can store your customers, employees and all their data, then look no further. We've got it all right here. Ingres is a cross-platform, open-source database management system that supports enterprise-wide applications ranging from commercial databases to government databases. Ingres was first released in 1986 and has been used by many organizations worldwide since then. Ingres has been used for the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE database, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Coastal Services Center, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs VA CAPS medical records system and others. When you want your data to stay safe, you want it in a database. When you want that database to be consistent and reliable, you want it to be transactional. A scalable architecture with extensive platform support would be best when you want that data accessible from anywhere—especially everywhere and when you own your own business and are responsible for ensuring everything runs smoothly and on time, you need automated backups. That's where Ingres comes in: a fully transactional database management system that strictly follows relational databases' atomicity, consistency, isolation and durability (ACID) properties. It has a scalable architecture with extensive platform and transaction support. It also supports audit capabilities and automated backup and if you're not sure what type of database you should use? That's okay—we've got you covered there too. Just choose from our recommended databases and let us do the rest of the work for you. Ingres is an open-source relational database system that runs on almost any platform, so you'll never have difficulty finding an installation that works for you!