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DBMS > Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenEdge vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenEdge vs. Realm

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.78
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score18.98
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score3.69
Rank#78  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score7.18
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.progress.com/­openedgerealm.io
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperEmbarcaderoMicrosoftProgress Software CorporationRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release1984201619842014
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 2019OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 possiblenoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infoclose to SQL 92no
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageTransact SQLyesno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersyesnoyesyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding, horizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change ViewsyesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesUsers and groupsyes

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