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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS info

originally from Borland

Microsofts relational DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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Score	6.56
Rank	#52	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	1067.31
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.microsoft.com/en-ie/sql/sql-server/sql-server-technical-documentation

Developer

Embarcadero

Microsoft

Initial release

1984

1989

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

SQL Server 2019, November 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

commercial info

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts info

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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