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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Ingres vs. Interbase vs. mSQL

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Name

Description

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

Well established RDBMS

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Website

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Actian Corporation

Embarcadero

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2008

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1984

1994

Current release

11.0, January 2021

11.2, May 2022

InterBase 2020, December 2019

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Ingres Replicator

Interbase Change Views

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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