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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. MySQL vs. PostGIS vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Widely used open source RDBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.78
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.50
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.mysql.com

postgis.net

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

dev.mysql.com/doc

postgis.net/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Embarcadero

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

1984

1995

2005

1992

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

9.0.0, July 2024

3.4.2, February 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

proprietary syntax

user defined functions

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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