InterBase - Why InterBase

Security to protect sensitive data

InterBase® provides security features typically only available in costly data servers. InterBase supports both Strong (AES) and Weak (DES) encryption to protect sensitive personal and financial data at-rest, over-the-wire and in backups

Durability to protect data and sustain high availability

InterBase® provides protection against failures and increased disaster recovery options through log-based journaling for short-term recovery, and journal archiving for long-term recovery in the occurrence of hardware system failures. In addition, InterBase introduces Online Backupof database files and Point-in-Time Recovery from archives.

The portable, international, cross-platform database allows for growth and flexibility

InterBase Server Edition is certified to run without modification on Windows®, Linux, Solaris™, and Mac OS® X. This enables deployment to a wide variety of platforms without having to rewrite code. The database is fully portable between platforms, and also from InterBase Desktop Edition to InterBase Server Edition, allowing for flexible deployment. In addition, InterBase supports international character sets, including the latest Unicode, UTF-8 and UCS-2 framework components.

When performance matters

InterBase is one of the fastest native databases available, and through support for symmetric multiprocessing it scales to effective utilize multiple CPUs, including multi-core CPUs. Performance enhancements and optimizations have been added in a number of areas, such as batch updates, query optimizations, and OLTP improvement via journaling. InterBase implements a multi-generational architecture (MVCC) providing unique versioning capabilities that result in high data availability for transaction processing users and decision support users—simultaneously. Support for multiple simultaneous instances of InterBase on the same machine provides application isolation and load balancing.

Embed – Deploy – Relax

InterBase combines simple installation and automatic crash recovery, with a self-tuning engine that makes it well suited for embedding. It is ideal for ISVs, OEMs, and VARs who require a database that is very compact in memory and disk size without compromising sophisticated features to support high-powered, business-critical applications. And, unlike many other enterprise databases that require expensive ecosystems of support and maintenance, InterBase is virtually maintenance free.

Built for Developers

Developers using Embarcadero RAD Studio, which includes Delphi® and Delphi for .NET, and C++Builder®, as well as JBuilder®, 3rdRail and other tools can leverage a wide range of standard database connectivity options through ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, and IBX. Transaction monitoring facilities provide developers with granular database controls for viewing, starting, stopping, and rolling back transactions, processes, and queries. InterBase, compliant with SQL92 standards, offers developers everything they can expect from an SQL database: triggers, stored procedures, and views, as well as advanced concepts such as domains and event alerters.