Illustra was a commercialized version of the Postgres object-relational database management system (DBMS) sold by Illustra Information Technologies, a company formed by Michael Stonebraker and Paula Hawthorn. PostgreSQL is an Object-relational database management system (ORDBMS A database management system ( DBMS) is Computer software designed for the purpose of managing Databases DBMSes may use any of a variety of Data models Michael Stonebraker is a Computer scientist specializing in database research and development The technology's extensibility model centered on DataBlade modules that defined types and associated index methods, operators, and functions for purposes and data domains that included Web publishing, search and manipulation of text, and management of geospatial information. Geospatial is a term widely used to describe the combination of Spatial software and Analytical methods with terrestrial or Geographic datasets
The company was sold to Informix in 1997. Informix is a family of Relational database management system (RDBMS products by IBM. The technology was folded into the Informix 7 OnLine product line, leading eventually to the creation of the unified Informix Universal Server (IUS) product line.
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