DBMS > BaseX vs. Firebird vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. Machbase Neo

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Firebird vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. Machbase Neo

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Well established RDBMS

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.firebirdsql.org

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

machbase.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.actian.com/ingres

machbase.com/dbms

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Firebird Foundation

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Actian Corporation

Machbase

Initial release

2007

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2013

Current release

11.0, June 2024

5.0.0, January 2024

11.2, May 2022

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

free test version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

gRPC (https)

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Ingres Replicator

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

token access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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