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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. OpenEdge vs. OushuDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.78
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#357	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Score	3.50
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.progress.com/openedge

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

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

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.oushu.com/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Embarcadero

Progress Software Corporation

Oushu

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

1984

1992

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

4.0.1, August 2020

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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

close to SQL 92

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C++

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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 and groups

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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