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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SpaceTime

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Name	Interbase  Xexclude from comparison	Postgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	SpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	Light-weight proven RDBMS originally from Borland	Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Spatial DBMS
Secondary database models		Document store Spatial DBMS		Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 4.08 Rank #75   Overall #41   Relational DBMS	Score 0.53 Rank #254   Overall #117   Relational DBMS		Score 0.03 Rank #392   Overall #8   Spatial DBMS
Website	www.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase	www.postgres-xl.org	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentation	docs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase	www.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
Developer	Embarcadero		Sybase, SAP	Mireo
Initial release	1984	2014 since 2012, originally named StormDB	1993	2020
Current release	InterBase 2020, December 2019	10 R1, October 2018
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Mozilla public license	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	C	C		C++
Server operating systems	Android iOS Linux OS X Windows	Linux macOS	Linux Windows	Linux
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	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.	no export as XML data possible	yes XML type, but no XML query functionality	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	no
SQL Support of SQL	yes	yes distributed, parallel query execution	yes	A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methods	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	ADO.NET JDBC native C library ODBC streaming API for large objects	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages	.Net C C++ Delphi Java Object Pascal PHP Ruby	.Net C C++ Delphi Erlang Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python Tcl	Delphi Perl PHP	C# C++ Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes Interbase procedure and trigger language	user defined functions	yes	no
Triggers	yes	yes	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	horizontal partitioning	none	Fixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	Interbase Change Views		Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	Real-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID MVCC	ACID	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes Multiversion concurreny control	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes	no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	no
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	yes
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