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  • SKU: INTERBAS


Multi-tier client/server SQL database management system including automatic crash recovery, self-tuning, Unicode, built-in SMP support, SQL 92 compliance and security and encryption features.

Embarcadero InterBase is an award winning, highly scalable, full-featured, admin free, Unicode-enabled, SQL-standard compliant, cross-platform database engine.

  • Easy to deploy, simple to maintain: Installable in minutes, or silently deployable along with your application: InterBase has a small on-disk and memory footprint. It’s ideal for deploying anywhere - either from a Windows or Linux Server (locally or in the cloud), or onto your local laptop, tablet, or mobile. The on-disk, cross-platform InterBase architecture dramatically reduces deployment complexities. With InterBase, your data easily moves between development, testing and multiple delivery targets - irrespective of the operating system. We’ve built InterBase from the ground up to be resilient and fully ACID-compliant to deliver near-zero admin effort on a database engine that just keeps running around-the-clock.
  • Reduce costs and risk, increase speed to market: Add pre-built and extensively-tested features such as Change Views (to track changes), role based user security, data-at-rest encryption, over-the-wire encryption, journaling and point-in-time recovery. With these and other InterBase features, simplify your development and testing processes to reduce cost, risks and time-to-market while adding even more value to your products.
  • Award winning Change Tracking: IoT award-winning data change tracking feature in InterBase. With it, you can ask the database “What has changed for me?”. and get results that show field-level change deltas - by user and device! Moving just what has changed (the delta) dramatically lowers network traffic and data costs as well as increasing the scalability of your server. Change Views readily scales to thousands of users, without using traditional log tables or table triggers - so you’ll enjoy significant reductions in disk space and CPU cost.
  • Data protection the right way: Full 256-bit AES strength database file encryption, as well as full over the wire encryption. InterBase offers a good solution for mitigating such risks, with its column-level encryption that is managed by ISO 9001 role-based authentication. Administrative access is controlled by a special database login for the Data Security Officer, which ensures that data-access rules are precisely managed in the database. The result: when code is refactored or redesigned, the data visibility rules are still enforced.
  • Disaster recovery that adds value to your application: InterBase is built from the ground up to be resilient in the event of power losses and network disconnects.
    • InterBase also features Journaling, which gives you both the speed of full in-memory processing and the data security of immediate writes.
    • Journaling ensures that there is no data loss. InterBase Point-in-Time Recovery is another excellent fail-safe feature. Working closely with Journaling, this feature give you the power to rewind your database to a previous point-in-time.

InterBase - Features

Key Features:

  • Event Alerters: InterBase Events enable a live time alert to connected clients that something has changed. Alerts are sent immediately following the transaction making the change is committed. This saves on CPU intensive database polling thus increasing database scalability.
  • Change Views: The award winning Change Views is a patent pending feature of InterBase that allows developers to identify what has changed in the database. Working with Change Views is simple; Running the same SQL statement in subsequent transactions will return only the delta
  • Generators: Generators allow your to fetch sequential numbers that are typically used for Primary Keys within InterBase. Generators work across database transactions and InterBase will not assign a duplicate key. InterBase Generators allows you to enable the database to be responsible for the production of key values centrally in the database.
  • Custom Exceptions: InterBase allows you build database logic to mange the data being passed in. Working alongside Stored Procedures and Trigger that happen before data is updated, you can raise a custom exception from the server if bad data is passed in.
  • Multi-platform support: InterBase is certified to run on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Android and iOS allowing you to develop on one platform and deploy anywhere. InterBase also supports heterogeneous OS connectivity across all supported platforms.
  • Cross platform encryption: InterBase encryption supports both weak DES and strong AES 256bit encryption in two elements.
    • Over the wire encryption of network traffic: InterBase encryption is built into the database as part of its cross platform single file format, allowing InterBase to offer protection of data everywhere it resides through out the development lifecycle. Data Encryption at rest is controlled by a Separate Security login to support industry best practice for Data Controllers.
    • Database data-at-rest encryption: InterBase encryption is built into the database as part of its cross platform single file format, allowing InterBase to offer protection of data everywhere it resides throughout the development lifecycle
    Data visibility is defined by a specialist login to the database (SYSDSO) with column level granularity ensuring that even developers cannot by pass encryption and view and search for sensitive data (unless your DSO (Data Security Officer) allows them access).
  • Rapid crash recovery: ACID compliant database means it will get back up and running very quickly following any server crash.It has been deployed in tanks, helicopters and medical equipment globally where time to recover is critical following any system reboots. InterBase also offers a range or fail over capabilities covered in the disaster recovery section, including Incremental Backups, Journals, Point in time recovery and database shadowing.
  • Role based User Security: By defining User Security Roles that match to job roles (e.g. Accountant, Accounts Manager, Sales Person, Human Resource etc) you can then allocate users with multiple roles making it easy to add or remove access to data across your system.




InterBase - System Requirements

InterBase Developer Edition and Server Edition

  • Supported operating systems:
    • Windows (64-bit, 32-bit): Windows 10, Windows 8, 8.1, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2, Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2, Windows Server 2016.
    • Linux (64-bit, 32-bit): RHEL 7, RHEL 6, SuSE 11.3, Ubuntu 14, Ubuntu 14
    • OS X: InterBase XE is the latest release.
    • Solaris: InterBase XE is the latest release.

  • Supported processor architecture:
    • Windows, Linux and OS X: Intel x86 or Intel x86-64
    • Solaris: SPARC

  • Hard disk space:
    • Installation files: ~250MB (~350MB for Japanese version).
    • Space needed for install: ~44 MB for compact installation, ~56 MB for full installation.

InterBase ToGo Edition

  • Supported operating systems:
    • Windows (64-bit, 32-bit): Windows 10, Windows 8, 8.1, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2 , Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2, Windows Sever 2016.
    • OS X: Sierra (10.12), El Capitan (10.11), Yosemite (10.10), Mavericks (10.9)
    • Android: Nougat (7.x), Marshmallow (6.x), Lollipop (5.x), Kitkat (4.4), Jelly Bean (4.1.x, 4.2.x, 4.3.x), Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0.3, 4.0.4)
    • iOS: iOS 10, iOS 9, iOS 8, iOS 7
      Note: The development machine needs to have the appropriate Xcode installed.