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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Firebird vs. Hyprcubd vs. Infobright vs. Ingres

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Firebird vs. Hyprcubd vs. Infobright vs. Ingres

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseServerless Time Series DBMSHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendWell established RDBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score3.63
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.firebirdsql.orghyprcubd.com (offline)ignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingres
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.actian.com/­ingres
DeveloperAmazonFirebird FoundationHyprcubd, Inc.Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Actian Corporation
Initial release20122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20051974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s
Current release5.0.1, August 202412.0, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercialcommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++GoCC
Server operating systemshostedAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesnono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC (https)ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLnonoyes
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednonenonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationIngres Replicator
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersnoyesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesUsers with fine-grained authorization concepttoken accessfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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