[Info-vax] Information about RdbStar?

[Maury Markowitz]

I was putting together an article on TPC-C when one of the authors of the original suite mentioned it was developed for something called RdbStar. I was curious so I had a look in Google and found some mentions of it around 92/93, but all of these were after the project had been cancelled and talked about what they were doing with the corpse having "butchered" the team (their phrase).

>From what I have been told, it was a distributed database system that also included a number of other experimental features like a cost-based query interface and other new technologies we now take for granted. But that is all I can find... there's basically nothing about its history.

Does anyone here have any materials on RdBStar from the period when it was being developed? Magazine articles, manuals (I understand it was ready to go) anything at all?