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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Firebird vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. Memcached

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseServerless Time Series DBMSWell established RDBMSIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.firebirdsql.orghyprcubd.com (offline)www.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.memcached.org
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.actian.com/­ingresgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperFirebird FoundationHyprcubd, Inc.Actian CorporationDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release20132000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2003
Current release5.0.0, January 202411.2, May 20221.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++GoCC
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesno
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 indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC (https).NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLnoyesno
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationIngres Replicatornone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersnoyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concepttoken accessfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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