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DBMS > Ehcache vs. Firebird vs. Galaxybase vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Firebird vs. Galaxybase vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformServerless Time Series DBMSWell established RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.79
Rank#66  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score3.63
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ehcache.orgwww.firebirdsql.orggalaxybase.comhyprcubd.com (offline)www.actian.com/­databases/­ingres
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.actian.com/­ingres
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGFirebird FoundationChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Hyprcubd, Inc.Actian Corporation
Initial release20092000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20171974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s
Current release3.10.0, March 20225.0.1, August 2024Nov 20, November 202112.0, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C and JavaGoC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxhostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesStrong typed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyes
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.nononono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJCacheADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
gRPC (https).NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLuser defined procedures and functionsnoyes
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServernoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta ServerSource-replica replicationIngres Replicator
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesnoyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptRole-based access controltoken accessfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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