InterBase

Data Model

Relational

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

Foreign Keys

Supported

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

Concurrency Control

Multi-version Concurrency Control (MVCC)

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

Compression

Run-Length Encoding Prefix Compression

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

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Website

http://www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Developer

Embarcadero Technologies, Inc.

Country of Origin

US

Start Year

1984

Former Name

Groton Database Systems, Yaffil

Acquired By

Ashton-Tate, Borland

Project Type

Commercial

Supported languages

SQL

Licenses

Proprietary

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterBase