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DBMS > Interbase vs. Kuzu vs. Microsoft Access vs. Netezza vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Kuzu vs. Microsoft Access vs. Netezza vs. SQLite

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonKuzu  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandAn embeddable property Graph DBMS built for query speed and scalabilityMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.78
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#380  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score7.56
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score103.35
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasekuzudb.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.kuzudb.comdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperEmbarcaderoMicrosoftIBMDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release19842022199220002000
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20190.4.2, May 20241902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.46.1  (13 August 2024), August 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT licensecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++C
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-lessWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux infoincluded in applianceserver-less
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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 infoexport as XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
Cypher Query Language
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Rust
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesno
Triggersyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change ViewsnonenoneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Users with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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