Ellison took inspiration from the 1970 paper written by Edgar F. Codd on relational database management systems named "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks."
Ngesikhathi uLarry ekhona, wafunda iphepha elibhalwa ngu-Edgar F. Codd kwizinhlelo zokuxhumana ezibizwa ngokuthi "I-Relational Model of Data for Banks Large Data Data."