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What do you like best about Interbase?

Easy to use. Flexibility. Powerful. Fast. Scalable. Cross platform ability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Interbase?

It is not popular. Many people do not know about features. Some things are hard to implement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Interbase solving and how is that benefiting you?

Data stored locally, secure access, quick data access Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is Interbase?

InterBase is a light-weight, embeddable, cross-platform Relational Database Management System. InterBase is characterized by its small footprint, minimal administration and built-in data security control.

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InterBase is a light-weight, embeddable, cross-platform Relational Database Management System. InterBase is characterized by its small footprint, minimal administration and built-in data security control.

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Yuriy T.
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Yuriy T.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
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Fast start, easy maintain, available on BSD*, Linux
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Ashish T.
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Ashish T.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Its really Light-weight RDBMS"
Its true meaning of Scalability, It's accessed from anywhere, It supports disaster recovery
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Raimonds .Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
3.5 out of 5
"Good, simple database"
It is fast and simple Good internal language and events
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What do you like best about Interbase?

Robustness, its safe. As no direct button is there for db maintenance operation, by using query or syntax, we have remembered al. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Interbase?

Most mathematical operations don't support.

Rebuilding of index takes a lot of time.

Big size.

When records get deleted, size doesn't reduce, we have to extra operation like back and restore to resize the db. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Interbase:

No i won't recommend as we are having oracle db, sql db and we are having storage in cloud. I don't recommend Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Interbase solving and how is that benefiting you?

Its a very old db. Compares to modern structure i don't see any benifits Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Interbase?

Its true meaning of Scalability, It's accessed from anywhere, It supports disaster recovery Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Interbase?

Integrate with could application is a bit complex. It is not supporting XML Data support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Interbase:

It is really lightweight you can integrate Interbase independently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Interbase solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am using it to connect through JDBC and ODBC api drivers with one of my applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Oleksandr S.
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What do you like best about Interbase?

The third-party tool called IBExpert. Other things was the same to me in comparison with common SQL database Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Interbase?

I can't say that I dislike something. Interbase was quite sufficient for my needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Interbase solving and how is that benefiting you?

We used Interbase as a DBMS for SCADA system. The output of SCADA system was a functional software used in nuclear and heat energetic areas.

It means that we stored all the information regarding the control system (mainly signals) using Interbase. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Interbase?

It is fast and simple

Good internal language and events Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Interbase?

Need to be more of Object-Oriented database Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Interbase solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are building logistics and accounting applications with Borland c++ and Interbase Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Interbase?

Fast start, easy maintain, available on BSD*, Linux Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Interbase?

SQL CLI client is very poor in comparison with Postgres Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Interbase solving and how is that benefiting you?

Making backups of full DB is as easy as make a file copy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Kiril I.
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What do you like best about Interbase?

The Interbase shadow feature is most helpful for my experiences. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Interbase?

Interbase is not too popular in a developer's community, however, I think that in a lot of situations it can be better than MySql. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Interbase:

To design normalized DB and at the same time to use views as a flat DB. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Interbase solving and how is that benefiting you?

The main problem is an API to programming languages, however, I prefer Perl 5 API. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Interbase?

Easy installation, small size, have a good performance, no need a lot PC resources Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Interbase?

Has very small set of built in service functions and procedures, opposite MSSql or Oracle, so language of stored procedures and triggers is poor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Interbase solving and how is that benefiting you?

Very good solutions for small user groups like factory account office, can be used for personal DB store on customer PC easily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Interbase?

I like to select data by clicking on the table Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Interbase?

I don`t know the way how to initialize DB instance via config file. Like tnsnames.ora in pl\sql developer or toad Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Interbase solving and how is that benefiting you?

Find out delta between BI and DataBase Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Interbase?

out put of sql query that we can use as a table Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Interbase?

Lack of mannual or techinical document . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Interbase:

lack of techinial information Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Interbase solving and how is that benefiting you?

as a backend database we use. It is light weight and good product . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Interbase?

SQL queries, procedure, functions and triggers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Interbase?

creating views are problematic sometimes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Interbase solving and how is that benefiting you?

application development for the retail industry Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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