InterBase is a relational database management system ( RDBMS ) currently developed and marketed by Embarcadero Technologies.

In many respects, InterBase is quite conventional ; it is a SQL-92-compliant relational database and supports standard interfaces such as JDBC, ODBC, and ADO. NET.

However, certain technical features distinguish InterBase from other products.

* Firebird ( database server ), database management system forked from the open sources of InterBase from Borland

The database forked from Borland's open source edition of InterBase in 2000, but since Firebird 1. 5 the code has been largely rewritten.

* InterBase – purchased from Groton Database Systems

On February 8 of 2006, Borland announced the intention to sell their line of development tool products, including InterBase, Delphi, JBuilder, and other tools.

At the end of 2002, Borland released InterBase version 7, featuring support for SMP, enhanced support for monitoring and control of the server by administrators, and more.

Within a week of the InterBase 6. 0 source being released by Borland on 25 July 2000, the Firebird project was created on SourceForge.

InterBase also uses its multi-generational architecture to implement rollbacks.

When Borland eventually sold its Quattro Pro and Paradox products to Novell, where they would be joined with Word Perfect in an attempt to match Microsoft Office, Borland was left with InterBase, which Esber had purchased in the late 1980s and had its origins as a derivative of the RDB database work at DEC. Borland's ongoing strategy was to refocus its development tools on the corporate market with client – server applications, so Interbase fitted in as a low-end tool and a good generic SQL database for prototyping.

In September 1991 Borland purchased Ashton-Tate, bringing the dBase and InterBase databases to the house, in an all stock transaction.

InterBase 6. 0 was made available as an open source product in July 2000.

Plans to spin off the InterBase division as a separate company were abandoned after Borland and the people who were to run the new company could not agree on terms for the separation.

Borland stopped open source releases of InterBase and has developed and sold new versions at a fast pace.

On February 8, 2006, Borland announced the divestiture of their IDE division, including Delphi, JBuilder, and InterBase.

InterBase runs on the Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Solaris operating systems.

A full InterBase 2009 server installation requires around 40 MB on disk.

A minimum InterBase client install requires about 400 KB of disk space.

InterBase offers the option to run as an embedded database or regular server.

InterBase servers typically do not require full-time database administrators.

In InterBase, readers do not block writers.

InterBase was the second commercial database to use this technique ; the first was DEC's Rdb / ELN.

A transaction with snapshot isolation in InterBase shows the state of the database precisely as it was at the instant the transaction began.

With their encouragement he formed Groton Database Systems ( named after the town, Groton, Massachusetts, where they were located ) on Labor Day 1984 and started work on what would eventually be released as InterBase.

The company was soon in trouble, and Borland purchased Ashton-Tate in 1991, acquiring InterBase as part of the deal.

In early 2000, Borland announced that InterBase would be released under open source, and began negotiations to spin off a separate company to manage the product.

When the people who were to run the new company and Borland could not agree on the terms of the separation, InterBase remained a Borland product, and the source code for InterBase version 6 was released under a variant of the Mozilla Public License in mid-2000.

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