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DBMS > Altibase vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. mSQL

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. mSQL

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.87
Rank#200  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score3.78
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score5.75
Rank#58  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score1.26
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchhughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaselearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperAltibaseEmbarcaderoMicrosoftHughes Technologies
Initial release1999198420151994
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023InterBase 2020, December 2019V14.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++CC
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono infoexport as XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesInterbase Change Viewsyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationno

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