DBMS > Interbase vs. MySQL vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SQL.JS vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. MySQL vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SQL.JS vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Widely used open source RDBMS

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.mysql.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

sql.js.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

dev.mysql.com/doc

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Embarcadero

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SAP, Sybase

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Rocket Software

Initial release

1984

1995

1987

2012

1985

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

8.4.0, April 2024

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

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

JavaScript API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

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++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

proprietary syntax

Java and Transact-SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

configurable

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

except by serializing a db to a file

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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