Integrated Data Store
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Integrated Data Store is a network database largely used by industry for its performance.

IDS was designed by Charles Bachman
Charles Bachman
Charles William "Charlie" Bachman is an American computer scientist, who spent his entire career as an industrial researcher rather than in academia...

 at General Electric
General Electric
General Electric Company , or GE, is an American multinational conglomerate corporation incorporated in Schenectady, New York and headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut, United States...

in the 1960s. It was not known to be easy to use or implement applications with, because it was designed to maximize performance using the hardware available at that time.
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