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System Properties Comparison Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.37
Rank	#278	Overall
	#128	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

www.postgresql.fastware.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

sqream.com

Technical documentation

www.postgresql.fastware.com/product-manuals

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.sqream.com

Developer

PostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software Technology

Embarcadero

Microsoft

SQream Technologies

Initial release

1984

1989

2017

Current release

Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 2022

InterBase 2020, December 2019

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

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

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

partitioning by range, list and by hash

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Interbase Change Views

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

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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