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DBMS > Ingres vs. Interbase vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. Interbase vs. Lovefield

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWell established RDBMSLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegoogle.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperActian CorporationEmbarcaderoGoogle
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s19842014
Current release11.2, May 2022InterBase 2020, December 20192.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCCJavaScript
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageno
TriggersyesyesUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres ReplicatorInterbase Change Viewsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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