InterBase

InterBase is a relational database system by Embarcadero, which follows the SQL standard. It operates on the client-server principle.

Since the source code of the version 6 was published in 2000 by the then owner Borland, there is also the cleavage Firebird, which remains open source.

InterBase evolved from a concept by Jim Starkey, who designed as an employee of Digital Equipment Corporation database software. Lack of company final decision, he founded the mid-1980s his own, which was initially called Groton Database Systems, then got the name InterBase software and was purchased in 1991 by Ashton- Tate. This company was bought in the same year from Borland. At that time lay InterBase prior to version 3.

Borland InterBase added, for example, stored procedures, and a version for Microsoft Windows. With version 7 InterBase was proprietary again.

Embarcadero bought Borland from the corporate sector with InterBase InterBase and marketed in four variants:

  • Server Edition
  • Desktop Edition
  • To-Go Edition
  • Developer Edition

The Developer Edition includes among others all the latest Embarcadero Delphi editions. The traditionally contained graphical management tool IBConsole now offers even performance analyzes.

Embarcadero Technologies Firebird (database server)
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