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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. NSDb vs. SQL.JS

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasensdb.iosql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlnsdb.io/­Architecturesql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperEmbarcaderoMicrosoftAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release1984201020172012
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 2019V12
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++Java, ScalaJavaScript
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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 possibleyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageTransact SQLnono
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change Viewsyes, with always 3 replicas availablenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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