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Database Entry

InterBase


Country of Origin
US
Start Year
1984 [02]
Former Names
Groton Database Systems, Yaffil
Project Type
Commercial
Supported Languages
SQL
License
Proprietary

Database Entry

InterBase


Checkpoints[03]


Checkpoint (also called Journaling Checkpoint) is supported in InterBase.

Compression[04]


In index, data values are compressed via pre and postfix compression.

Concurrency Control[05]


InterBase implements Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) and refers to it as Multi-Generational Architecture.

Data Model[06]


InterBase is a relational database management system (RDBMS) and it complies with SQL-92 standard.

Foreign Keys[07]


InterBase supports foreign keys and creates indices for foreign keys by default. Referential integrity is enforced for foreign keys.

Derivative Systems
Firebird Firebird

Citations

7 sources
  1. http://www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase embarcadero.com Dead — Check Archive
  2. InterBase - Wikipedia wikipedia.org
  3. http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/InterBase/XE7/en/How_Journaling_Works embarcadero.com Spam — Check Archive
  4. http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/InterBase/XE7/en/Database_Physical_Properties embarcadero.com Dead — Check Archive
  5. http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/InterBase/XE7/en/Multi-Generational_Architecture embarcadero.com Dead — Check Archive
  6. InterBase - Wikipedia wikipedia.org
  7. https://www.ibphoenix.com/resources/documents/general/doc_70 ibphoenix.com Dead — Check Archive
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