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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.jaguardb.com

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

sqream.com

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

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

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Embarcadero

DataJaguar, Inc.

Microsoft

SQream Technologies

Initial release

1984

2015

1989

2017

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

3.3 July 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

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

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

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

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

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

none

Sharding

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

Interbase Change Views

Multi-source replication

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

Eventual Consistency

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

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

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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