Sybase, an SAP

SAP AG

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 company, is an enterprise software and services company offering software to manage, analyze, and mobilize information, using relational database

Relational database

A relational database is a database that conforms to relational model theory. The software used in a relational database is called a relational database management system . Colloquial use of the term "relational database" may refer to the RDBMS software, or the relational database itself...

s, analytics and data warehousing solutions and mobile applications development platforms.
Sybase was founded in 1984 by Mark Hoffman, Bob Epstein, Jane Doughty and Tom Haggin in Epstein’s home in Berkeley, California. Together, they set out to create a relational database

Database

A database is an organized collection of data for one or more purposes, usually in digital form. The data are typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality , in a way that supports processes requiring this information...

 management system (RDBMS), which would organize information and make it available to many computers in a network.

In late 1986, Sybase shipped its first test programs, and in May 1987 formally released the SYBASE system, the first high-performance RDBMS for online applications.