InterBase

The Multi-Device Database!

Are you looking for a fast and lightweight database engine? Do you want to keep your data secure? Is business continuity important to you? Do you need to create apps that run on multiple platforms? Embarcadero^® InterBase^® XE7 is a full-featured, high performance, encryptable, multiplatform and scalable relational database for developers who are looking to embed a low-cost, zero admin, lightweight secure database into their cross platform connected applications. With InterBase XE7 you get powerful access control, data change management, disaster recovery and journaling, as well as support for popular database drivers for increased deployment flexibility.

Zero administration. Tiny footprint

If business continuity and cost matter to you then it's probably worth knowing why so many ISVs, OEMs and VARs trust InterBase to power their business critical software. Built from the ground up to be sturdy and resistant to data corruption, InterBase is powered by a multi-generational transaction architecture that in short, helps make InterBase a zero-admin database. Not requiring a full-time DBA can help save a small fortune! Simple installation and tiny footprint make InterBase an incredible database to embed in your applications. In addition, InterBase's journaling features help make disaster recovery worries a thing of the past, allowing you to Embed, Deploy and Relax!

Turn on to data security!

Data security is a hot topic! The loss of data via cyber attacks can lead to loss of customers and reputation, lead to regulatory action, and even expose you to large fines. InterBase is here to help with its flexible on-disk and over the wire encryption capabilities. InterBase also benefits from inbuilt user authentication and security in place wherever your data files reside. Choose to encrypt the entire database or just a critical table or column, and define who can decode that data with powerful role based authentication. InterBase supports both Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and Data Encryption Standard (DES) encryption.

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Speed up to lower risk development and deployment

InterBase will save you money at every stage of development, both at design time and run time!

When it comes to InterBase, it's all about the total cost of ownership. Reduce testing overhead and get to market faster by leverage built-in encryption user/role based data visibility capabilities, journaling, and disaster recovery. All in a zero administration database saving you expensive data administrator costs year over year; all of which is backed up with world wide support.

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Ultra-fast performance

With InterBase, you can rely on over a decade of SMP experience to super charge your applications with one of the fastest native databases available. InterBase leverages today's multi-core CPUs and multi-CPU systems, along with a unique versioning approach, to retrieve and update your data blazingly fast.

NEW IN XE7 - Incremental Data Dumps provide a rapid way to regularly backup even the largest databases for that extra level of resilience.

Close integration with best-of-breed Application Development Tools

InterBase supports all major development paradigms including Java, C, C++, .NET, Delphi, PHP and Ruby. It integrates closely to C++Builder, RAD Studio, Delphi and Appmethod so that when you deploy your projects to any platform, InterBase will automatically deploy with it. If you're a Visual Studio developer you can work with InterBase via the ADO.NET or ODBC connectors for easy access to your data.

Put Your Database on the Cloud or Keep it Local

Take advantage of the power of the Cloud and deploy InterBase in a cloud computing environment so that your application can obtain instant access to resources. Or keep it local for higher security and higher performance.

Your Free edition of InterBase IBLite

Based on InterBase XE3 ToGo, IBLite is run-time royalty free and powered by the same small footprint engine. With no installer required, IBLite is as simple to deploy as including the required files with your application, providing the core power of InterBase's easy to use, multi-platform embeddable database engine for Free! Yes! Free! - IBLite also uses the same on disk structure for data storage, making transportable multi-platform data storage across Windows, Mac OS X, Android and iOS a reality, greatly simplifying and reducing the cost of development and product life cycles!

IBLite XE3 is now available exclusively in RAD Studio XE7 (all editions) and Delphi XE7 (Pro with Mobile and above). Do you have more demanding mobile data requirements? Upgrade from IBLite to InterBase ToGo edition for additional functionality including encryption, multi-core support and larger database file sizes.

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