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InterBase vs Oracle Berkeley DB comparison

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Categories and Ranking

InterBase
Ranking in Embedded Database
11th
Average Rating
6.0
Reviews Sentiment
4.6
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Oracle Berkeley DB
Ranking in Embedded Database
9th
Average Rating
7.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
Non-Relational Databases (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Embedded Database category, the mindshare of InterBase is 3.9%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Berkeley DB is 5.8%, up from 4.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Embedded Database Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Oracle Berkeley DB5.8%
InterBase3.9%
Other90.3%
Embedded Database
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer1991775 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chapter Lead at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
Has good disaster recovery capabilities, but its stability should be improved
The solution's developer is Embarcadero Technologies, but they are not doing a good job. We had a lot of problems in the last few years with database crashes, and they couldn't reproduce it. The database is a little bit more stable today. It seems like the database was developed at night and deployed to many companies and people. Sometimes, it seems rare. Three database administrators are needed for the administration and maintenance of InterBase. You can encrypt the whole database, but it slows down the performance. We used the solution's change synchronization feature three years ago, but it also crashed a lot. If you were notified about a change, sometimes the database hangs up. It wasn't working anymore. They said they would fix it, but we chose to do it ourselves. We no longer trust these features because it costs us hundreds and thousands of dollars if our database is broken for some hours. It was easy to integrate InterBase with other products and third-party solutions. For developing software, that's one thing. If you want to use an ORM (Object Relational Mapping), many software supports Oracle, Microsoft SQL, and My SQL but do not support InterBase. So, that's a problem. I would not recommend the solution to other users. Overall, I rate the solution a six out of ten.
Emad Mokhatab - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution & Software System Architect at Shaparak
Easy to integrate and manage the setup phase
One of the things that I want to see in Oracle Berkeley DB is a driver for reactive programming. I think the tool's official driver for reactive programming, especially for Java, is the thing that Oracle needs to be more agile in, specifically in those areas of programming that other products are currently going into. Other tools have become more innovative in many areas. I know that Oracle has many responsibilities in maintaining the situation with the current projects and so on. I think it would be very cool if Oracle could make improvements to its projects, as it can help me with my current projects. One reason why I don't choose Oracle Berkeley DB is because we want to go for reactive programming, along with Project Reactor from Spring, but we don't have the official driver for it.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The solution's disaster recovery capability is very nice because we have these just-in-time dumps."
"As a key/value store, Oracle BDB is simple to use, and it provides ACID transactions for companies that cannot afford eventual consistency."
"We always had predictability, and by using a custom-built data service layer with plugins, it provided us a lot of scalability, fast turnaround for our fast-moving business requirement and huge data."
"The product meets all the essential business requirements."
"This product helped us to develop a performance-critical DB backend module in the healthcare domain."
"The tool's performance is good, and I don't have any problems with it."
 

Cons

"For InterBase, we want Embarcadero to build a stable product."
"I think the tool's official driver for reactive programming, especially for Java, is the thing that Oracle needs to be more agile in, specifically in those areas of programming that other products are currently going into."
"Environment corruption is a common problem found when a DB environment is used by more than one process on a machine at a time."
"Memory usage becomes a problem when the number of entries stored within the key/value store are quite high (hundreds of millions)."
"There were some mid-term small releases that caused database crashes, but this was later fixed."
"The product's interface could be more intuitive and user-friendly."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"I rate the product's pricing a five out of ten."
"There is a need to pay for the licenses and features of the tool."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
13%
Educational Organization
11%
University
10%
Computer Software Company
10%
 

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