Illustra

Illustra Information Technologies was an object-relational database company founded in 1992 by Michael Stonebraker, Gary Morgenthaler and several of Stonebraker's students to commercialize the Postgres research project. Its DataBlade extensibility modules let structured and unstructured multimedia data (text, geospatial, web content) be stored and indexed as true objects. NASA selected it in 1995 to store millions of satellite images. Informix Corporation acquired the company in 1996 and folded the object-relational engine and DataBlades into what became Informix Universal Server; that lineage passed to IBM and is now maintained by HCL Technologies. Illustra no longer exists as an independent entity and publishes no standalone website, developer portal, or API. This record was surfaced from a historical Trinity Ventures portfolio list; enrichment found no live API surface.

Illustra is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Enterprise Software, Database, Object-Relational Database, and Acquired.

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: illustra
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/illustra.png
name: Illustra
description: Illustra Information Technologies was an object-relational database company founded in 1992 by Michael Stonebraker,
  Gary Morgenthaler and several of Stonebraker's students to commercialize the Postgres research project. Its DataBlade extensibility
  modules let structured and unstructured multimedia data (text, geospatial, web content) be stored and indexed as true objects.
  NASA selected it in 1995 to store millions of satellite images. Informix Corporation acquired the company in 1996 and folded
  the object-relational engine and DataBlades into what became Informix Universal Server; that lineage passed to IBM and is
  now maintained by HCL Technologies. Illustra no longer exists as an independent entity and publishes no standalone website,
  developer portal, or API. This record was surfaced from a historical Trinity Ventures portfolio list; enrichment found no
  live API surface.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/illustra/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- trinity-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-defunct-reason: acquired
x-acquired-by: informix
x-founded: '1992'
x-acquired: '1996'
x-enrichment-outcome: no-live-api-surface
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Enterprise Software
- Database
- Object-Relational Database
- Acquired
- Defunct
- Historical
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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