DBMS are not a new concept and as such it has been first implemented in 1960’s. Charles Bachmen’s Integrated Data Store (IDS) is said to be the first DBMS in history.

Later a more flexible, network model was developed by Charles Bachmen. Now, child nodes can have multiple parents. But as the databases got complicated, it became too hard to maintain and manage all those pointers.

In 1975, IBM produced an experimental relational database known as ‘System R’. It used SQL.

Oracle was launched in 1980. This is the first most popular relational DBMS which gradually edged out earlier mainframe products such as IMS.