We are happy to announce that today Embarcadero has released a new update of its InterBase flagship database engine, InterBase 2020 Update 7. With this release, the company continues to improve the product’s quality and usability.
InterBase Installer Update
In this release, we have updated the installer technology used to install InterBase Server editions on both Windows and Linux, to offer a…
If you are looking for a fully functional powerful database which can be easily used in your mobile apps and, importantly, unlike SQLite, it supports full-strength encryption without having to pay an extra fee then we have some good news! Not only does InterBase work on…
High-level encryption is a vital feature of any reliable database, and Embarcadero’s signature database, InterBase, handles it very well. But how exactly does InterBase restrict access to data, both at rest and in transit, through encryption? In the article we are…
InterBase is Embarcadero’s signature award-winning database, designed to integrate seamlessly through multiple editions with RAD Studio for multi-platform, multi-device applications.
Multiple Editions
InterBase comes in multiple editions: The Developer Edition is free to download, as is IBLite as a single-user embeddable database. IBToGo is the AES encrypted version with a maximum…
RAD Studio is available in three editions: Professional, Enterprise, and the most advanced edition, Architect. What’s in the Architect edition, and what benefits does it offer?
What do you get with the Architect Edition of RAD Studio that you don’t get with…
After extensive testing, a top global commercial aircraft manufacturer has just renewed its InterBase deployment license with Embarcadero.
The project involved updating InterBase to the latest version to address compliance requirements. Although we cannot name the long-term…
The Long and Winding Road To Today's Delphi - Happy 29th Birthday !
February 14, 2024
The Long and Winding Road To Delphi’s 29th Birthday
This blog post contains a quick look at 29+ years of development, innovation, community and fun with Delphi.
It Started with Pascal
In order to get to today’s 29th year of Delphi, we have to start back in 1970 with the creation of the Pascal programming language by Niklaus Wirth (1984 ACM Turing Award Laureate) and his team at…
I first met Philippe Kahn and Turbo Pascal 40 years ago this month
November 6, 2023
In 1983, I was working for Softsel Computer Products (Softsel) in the product evaluation, support and training group. Softsel had a booth at the Fall 1983 COMDEX (Computer Dealer Expo) conference (November 28 to December 2) in the Las Vegas Convention Center. I sat at a pod…
If you want to deploy RAD Server on a Linux environment (on-premise or cloud-based) it is mandatory to deploy an instance of InterBase as well because it is the database used by RAD Server to store all its internal data.
This is quite straightforward in most cases, and you…
The official PAServer, RAD Server, and InterBase Docker images are all updated to work with 11.2. The 10.x images used Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (Bionic Beaver) while the updated 11.3 images use Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish). You can find the images on Docker Hub, or the individual Dockerfiles and build instructions are on GitHub.
Documentation
Some basic introductory documentation. Check…
