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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. GeoSpock vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. Interbase

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleServerless Time Series DBMSWell established RDBMSLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from Borland
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Websitegeospock.comhyprcubd.com (offline)www.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGeoSpockHyprcubd, Inc.Actian CorporationEmbarcadero
Initial release20081974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s1984
Current release7.2.4, September 20122.0, September 201911.2, May 2022InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC++Java, JavascriptGoCC
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedhostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
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 availableno infoexport as XML data possible
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBCgRPC (https).NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger language
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Ingres ReplicatorInterbase Change Views
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyes infoMVCCyes infoMultiversion concurreny control
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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users can be defined per tabletoken accessfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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