Editing Object database (section)

==Timeline==
* 1966
** [[MUMPS]]
* 1979
** [[InterSystems]] M
* 1980
** TORNADO – an object database for [[CAD/CAM]]<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Ulfsby|title=TORNADO: a DBMS for CAD/CAM systems|journal=[[Computer-Aided Design Journal|Computer-Aided Design]]|date=July 1981|volume=13|issue=4|pages=193–197|display-authors=etal|doi=10.1016/0010-4485(81)90140-8}}</ref>
* 1982
** [[Gemstone (database)|Gemstone]] started (as Servio Logic) to build a set theoretic model data base machine.
* 1985 – Term Object Database first introduced
* 1986
** Servio Logic (Gemstone Systems) Ships Gemstone 1.0
* 1988
** [[Object Design, Incorporated]] founded, development of [[ObjectStore]] begun
** [[Versant Corporation]] started (as Object Sciences Corp)
** Objectivity, Inc. founded
* Early 1990s
** Servio Logic changes name to Gemstone Systems
** [[Gemstone (database)|Gemstone]] ([[Smalltalk]])-([[C++]])-([[Java (programming language)|Java]])
** GBase ([[LISP]])
** VBase (O2- ONTOS – INFORMIX)
** [[Objectivity/DB]]
* Mid 1990s
** [[InterSystems Caché]]
** [[Versant Object Database]]
** [[ODABA]]
** [[Zope Object Database|ZODB]]
** Poet
** [[JADE (programming language)|JADE]]
** Matisse
** Illustra [[Informix]]
* 2000s
** [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242787423_l-DB_an_ODMG-based_object-oriented_DBMS lambda-DB:] An ODMG-Based Object-Oriented DBMS by Leonidas Fegaras, Chandrasekhar Srinivasan, Arvind Rajendran, David Maier
** [[db4o]] project started by Carl Rosenberger
** [[ObjectDB]]
* 2001 [[IBM]] acquires Informix
* 2003 [[ObjectDatabase++|odbpp]] public release
* 2004 db4o's commercial launch as db4objects, Inc.
* 2008 db4o acquired by [[Versant Corporation]]
* 2010 [[VMware]] acquires GemStone<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/spring-gemstone.html|title=SpringSource to Acquire Gemstone Systems Data Management Technology|date=May 6, 2010|access-date=August 5, 2014|publisher=WMware|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808042307/http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/spring-gemstone.html|archive-date=August 8, 2014}}</ref>
* 2011 db4o's development stopped.
* 2012 Wakanda first production versions with open source and commercial licenses
* 2012 [[Actian]] acquires Versant Corporation
* 2013 GemTalk Systems acquires [[Gemstone (database)|Gemstone]] products from VMware<ref name=gemtalk1>{{Cite web|url=http://www.prweb.com/releases/gemtalksystems/acquires-gemstone-s/prweb10652596.htm|author=GemTalk Systems|publisher=PRWeb|date=May 2, 2013|title=GemTalk Systems Acquires GemStone/S Products from VMware|access-date=August 5, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810224807/http://www.prweb.com/releases/gemtalksystems/acquires-gemstone-s/prweb10652596.htm|archive-date=August 10, 2014}}</ref>
* 2014 db4o's commercial offering is officially discontinued by Actian (which had acquired Versant)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://supportservices-old.actian.com/versant/default.html|title=restructuring our Versant Community Website}}</ref>
* 2014 [[Realm (database)|Realm]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/11/Realm-database-nodejs|title=Realm Releases Object Database for Node.js|website=InfoQ|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202043544/https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/11/Realm-database-nodejs|archive-date=2017-02-02}}</ref>
*2017 ObjectBox<ref>{{Cite web|last=DB-Engines|title=Object Database Ranking on DB-Engines|url=https://db-engines.com/en/ranking/object+oriented+dbms|access-date=2021-05-21|website=DB-Engines}}</ref>