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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Tigris

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Name

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.67
Rank	#75	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#360	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#53	Key-value stores
	#23	Search engines
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.tigrisdata.com

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

Developer

Embarcadero

Tigris Data, Inc.

Initial release

1984

2022

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

yes

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

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

yes, using FoundationDB

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

Access rights for users and roles

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